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Название книги: The Faculty Club
Автор(ы): Danny Tobey
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Faculty-Club-192185.html
© 2010
To JudeSome rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.– MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ACT 2, SCENE 1
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I remember my mother’s reaction when I got accepted to the greatest law school in the world. She dropped the stack of mail in her hand, said, “Baby,” and started crying. My dad’s reaction was harder to place. He just said, “Oh.” Not an indifferent, uninterested Oh, and not a surprised Oh either. This Oh was quiet, a little puzzled, and maybe even a little sad-a recognition that, in less than a second, the possibilities of my life had just radically shifted from those of his own.We live in a small town in Texas called Lamar. My father is a schoolteacher, loved by his students and popular in the community, yet the years of hard work have worn him down, and by the time I reached high school, he’d settled into the strange conviction that he was meaningless in the universe. This terrified me. Death didn’t scare me. Risk didn’t scare me. But my father’s dissatisfaction-in the face of a good life, a loving family, a meaning
Название книги: The Faculty Club
Автор(ы): Danny Tobey
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Faculty-Club-192185.html
© 2010
To JudeSome rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.– MEASURE FOR MEASURE, ACT 2, SCENE 1
1
I remember my mother’s reaction when I got accepted to the greatest law school in the world. She dropped the stack of mail in her hand, said, “Baby,” and started crying. My dad’s reaction was harder to place. He just said, “Oh.” Not an indifferent, uninterested Oh, and not a surprised Oh either. This Oh was quiet, a little puzzled, and maybe even a little sad-a recognition that, in less than a second, the possibilities of my life had just radically shifted from those of his own.We live in a small town in Texas called Lamar. My father is a schoolteacher, loved by his students and popular in the community, yet the years of hard work have worn him down, and by the time I reached high school, he’d settled into the strange conviction that he was meaningless in the universe. This terrified me. Death didn’t scare me. Risk didn’t scare me. But my father’s dissatisfaction-in the face of a good life, a loving family, a meaning
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