live upstairs Quotes

A slight treatment of a boy’s reaction when an older friend, a painter, commits suicide. His friend had lived upstairs, where Claudio had visited him almost every day.

“Joe lived upstairs at number 111 Fashion Street. There was a bedroom and a kitchen, and the kitchen had a fireplace and a gas stove, but no sink. The tap was at the top of the first flight of stairs, and Mr Kandinsky used it, too. ”