A Special ProvidenceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. ápr. 27. - 336 oldal From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road, comes the story of a mother who struggles with her own demons while her son goes to fight in Europe, hoping to become his own man. "Like Breakfast At Tiffany's spliced with All Quiet On The Western Front. Impossible to paraphrase, wonderful to read." —Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth Robert Prentice has spent all his life attempting to escape his mother's stifling presence. His mother, Alice, for her part, is attempting to realize her dreams of prosperity and success as a sculptor. As Robert goes off to fight in Europe, Richard Yates portrays a soldier in the depths of war striving to live up to his heroic ideals. With haunting clarity, Yates crafts an unforgettable portrait of two people who cannot help but hope for more even as life challenges them both. |
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... face and the hurry in his walk might suggest, to other observers, that he was bound for a welcome as romantic as the ... faces that hung and swayed around him in the car, and when he came up into the windswept darkness of Columbus Circle ...
... face and the hurry in his walk might suggest, to other observers, that he was bound for a welcome as romantic as the ... faces that hung and swayed around him in the car, and when he came up into the windswept darkness of Columbus Circle ...
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... face took on the most beautiful look of welcome he had ever seen . She didn't move , but her eyes filled with tears and her lips parted in a way that stopped his heart God , to be looked at that way by a girl , just once ! - So that he ...
... face took on the most beautiful look of welcome he had ever seen . She didn't move , but her eyes filled with tears and her lips parted in a way that stopped his heart God , to be looked at that way by a girl , just once ! - So that he ...
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... face and the hurry in his walk might suggest , to other observers , that he was bound for a welcome as romantic as ... faces that hung and swayed around him in the car , and when he came up into the windswept darkness of Columbus Circle ...
... face and the hurry in his walk might suggest , to other observers , that he was bound for a welcome as romantic as ... faces that hung and swayed around him in the car , and when he came up into the windswept darkness of Columbus Circle ...
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... face ; left face ; about face ; hand salute ; parade rest . In the parade - rest position he discovered that she'd left a smear of lipstick on his uniform . " There , " she said . “ Now I'm ready . Do I look all right ? Do I look nice ...
... face ; left face ; about face ; hand salute ; parade rest . In the parade - rest position he discovered that she'd left a smear of lipstick on his uniform . " There , " she said . “ Now I'm ready . Do I look all right ? Do I look nice ...
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... face . Recorded organ music was droning somewhere in the back- ground , and there was a long solemn line of men from Amalgamated Tool and Die waiting to pay their respects ( he had an awful suspicion that her histrionics were being ...
... face . Recorded organ music was droning somewhere in the back- ground , and there was a long solemn line of men from Amalgamated Tool and Die waiting to pay their respects ( he had an awful suspicion that her histrionics were being ...
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Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World Walter Russell Mead Korlátozott előnézet - 2013 |
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