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Название книги: Prep
Автор(ы): Curtis Sittenfeld
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Prep-150433.html
For my parents, Paul and Betsy Sittenfeld;my sisters, Tiernan and Josephine;and my brother, P.G.1. Thieves
FRESHMAN FALL
I think that everything, or at least the part of everything that happened to me, started with the Roman architecture mix-up. Ancient History was my first class of the day, occurring after morning chapel and roll call, which was not actually roll call but a series of announcements that took place in an enormous room with twenty-foot-high Palladian windows, rows and rows of desks with hinged tops that you lifted to store your books inside, and mahogany panels on the walls-one for each class since Ault’s founding in 1882-engraved with the name of every person who had graduated from the school. The two senior prefects led roll call, standing at a desk on a platform and calling on the people who’d signed up ahead of time to make announcements. My own desk, assigned alphabetically, was near the platform, and because I didn’t talk to my classmates who sat around me, I spent the lull before roll call listeni
Название книги: Prep
Автор(ы): Curtis Sittenfeld
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Prep-150433.html
For my parents, Paul and Betsy Sittenfeld;my sisters, Tiernan and Josephine;and my brother, P.G.1. Thieves
FRESHMAN FALL
I think that everything, or at least the part of everything that happened to me, started with the Roman architecture mix-up. Ancient History was my first class of the day, occurring after morning chapel and roll call, which was not actually roll call but a series of announcements that took place in an enormous room with twenty-foot-high Palladian windows, rows and rows of desks with hinged tops that you lifted to store your books inside, and mahogany panels on the walls-one for each class since Ault’s founding in 1882-engraved with the name of every person who had graduated from the school. The two senior prefects led roll call, standing at a desk on a platform and calling on the people who’d signed up ahead of time to make announcements. My own desk, assigned alphabetically, was near the platform, and because I didn’t talk to my classmates who sat around me, I spent the lull before roll call listeni
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