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Название книги: A Spot Of Bother
Автор(ы): Mark Haddon
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Spot-Of-Bother-174175.html
To My Continuity GirlWith thanks to Sos Eltis,Clare Alexander, Dan Franklin,and Bill Thomas
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It began when George was trying on a black suit in Allders the week before Bob Green’s funeral.It was not the prospect of the funeral that had unsettled him. Nor Bob dying. To be honest he had always found Bob’s locker-room bonhomie slightly tiring and he was secretly relieved that they would not be playing squash again. Moreover, the manner in which Bob had died (a heart attack while watching the Boat Race on television) was oddly reassuring. Susan had come back from her sister’s and found him lying on his back in the center of the room with one hand over his eyes, looking so peaceful she thought initially that he was taking a nap.It would have been painful, obviously. But one could cope with pain. And the endorphins would have kicked in soon enough, followed by that sensation of one’s life rushing before one’s eyes which George himself had experienced several years ago when he had fallen from a stepladder,
Название книги: A Spot Of Bother
Автор(ы): Mark Haddon
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/A-Spot-Of-Bother-174175.html
To My Continuity GirlWith thanks to Sos Eltis,Clare Alexander, Dan Franklin,and Bill Thomas
1
It began when George was trying on a black suit in Allders the week before Bob Green’s funeral.It was not the prospect of the funeral that had unsettled him. Nor Bob dying. To be honest he had always found Bob’s locker-room bonhomie slightly tiring and he was secretly relieved that they would not be playing squash again. Moreover, the manner in which Bob had died (a heart attack while watching the Boat Race on television) was oddly reassuring. Susan had come back from her sister’s and found him lying on his back in the center of the room with one hand over his eyes, looking so peaceful she thought initially that he was taking a nap.It would have been painful, obviously. But one could cope with pain. And the endorphins would have kicked in soon enough, followed by that sensation of one’s life rushing before one’s eyes which George himself had experienced several years ago when he had fallen from a stepladder,
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