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Название книги: Sleeping in Flame
Автор(ы): Jonathan Carroll
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Sleeping-in-Flame-171120.html
PART ONESTEALING HORSES
Isn't that a large shadow on the roadrunning parallel to us or our dream?Is it loaded?– Joseph McElroy, Women and Men
CHAPTER ONE
1.
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.The day after we met, Maris York told me I had saved her life. We were in a cafй, and she said this through the folds of a black sweater she was pulling over her head. I was glad she was lost in the middle of that pullover because the statement, although true, made me feel much too brave and adult and embarrassed. I didn't know what to answer."It's quite true, Walker. The next time I saw him he would have killed me.""Maybe he just wanted to go on scaring you.""No, he would have tried to kill me."The voice carried no emotion. Her big hands lay open and still on the pink and blue marble table. I wo
Название книги: Sleeping in Flame
Автор(ы): Jonathan Carroll
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Sleeping-in-Flame-171120.html
PART ONESTEALING HORSES
Isn't that a large shadow on the roadrunning parallel to us or our dream?Is it loaded?– Joseph McElroy, Women and Men
CHAPTER ONE
1.
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.The day after we met, Maris York told me I had saved her life. We were in a cafй, and she said this through the folds of a black sweater she was pulling over her head. I was glad she was lost in the middle of that pullover because the statement, although true, made me feel much too brave and adult and embarrassed. I didn't know what to answer."It's quite true, Walker. The next time I saw him he would have killed me.""Maybe he just wanted to go on scaring you.""No, he would have tried to kill me."The voice carried no emotion. Her big hands lay open and still on the pink and blue marble table. I wo
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