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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... rifle trainee , eighteen years old , and this seemed an important thing to do because it might well be the last pass he would get before going overseas . In the echoing swarm of Penn Station that night , feeling lost and cramped and ...
... rifle trainee , eighteen years old , and this seemed an important thing to do because it might well be the last pass he would get before going overseas . In the echoing swarm of Penn Station that night , feeling lost and cramped and ...
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... to worse. He was incurably clumsy at close-order drill; he couldn't perform the manual of amis without an unsightly dipping of his head when he wrenched open the rifle's chamber; in the field his 25 A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE.
... to worse. He was incurably clumsy at close-order drill; he couldn't perform the manual of amis without an unsightly dipping of his head when he wrenched open the rifle's chamber; in the field his 25 A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE.
23. oldal
... rifles shocked his ears , right and left ; he squeezed the trigger and felt the stock of his own rifle drive hard into his shoulder and cheek , and then he fired again . They were lying prone on a damp Virginia ridge , firing down ...
... rifles shocked his ears , right and left ; he squeezed the trigger and felt the stock of his own rifle drive hard into his shoulder and cheek , and then he fired again . They were lying prone on a damp Virginia ridge , firing down ...
24. oldal
... rifle as an extension of himself , and that he'd taken part in elaborate field problems without doing anything noticeably absurd . A pleasant little spasm of shuddering seized him ; he squared his shoulders , set his feet wider apart ...
... rifle as an extension of himself , and that he'd taken part in elaborate field problems without doing anything noticeably absurd . A pleasant little spasm of shuddering seized him ; he squared his shoulders , set his feet wider apart ...
25. oldal
... to worse . He was incurably clumsy at close - order drill ; he couldn't perform the manual of arms without an unsightly dipping of his head when he wrenched open the rifle's chamber ; in the field 25 25 A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE.
... to worse . He was incurably clumsy at close - order drill ; he couldn't perform the manual of arms without an unsightly dipping of his head when he wrenched open the rifle's chamber ; in the field 25 25 A SPECIAL PROVIDENCE.
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