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Название: The Marrowbone Marble Company

Автор: Glenn Taylor

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Историческая литература

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      THE MARROWBONE

       MARBLE COMPANY A Novel

      GLENN TAYLOR

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       Copyright

      The Borough Press

       An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

      Copyright © Glenn Taylor 2010

      Glenn Taylor asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      ISBN: 978-0-00-742328-6 (Hardback)

      ISBN: 978-0-00-735907-3 (Trade Paperback)

      Ebook Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780007369393

      Version: 2015-10-28

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

      The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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       Black ground was fenced for men to till. The dead of Gauley own this hill.

      —Louise McNeill

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Epigraph

      February 1948

      May 1948

      July 1948

      September 1948

      November 1948

      April 1949

      October 1951

      June 1953

      II - A House on the Sand

      June 1963

      August 1963

      September 1963

      December 1964

      February 1965

      March 1965

      April 1965

      May 1966

      June 1966

      February 1967

      June 1967

      July 1967

      September 1967

      October 1967

      February 1968

      March 1968

      April 1968

      July 1968

      December 1968

      January 1969

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Also by Glenn Taylor

      Author’s Note

       About the Publisher

       Prologue January 1969

      THE GROUND WAS THE color of rust. Holes the size of half-dollars were every where, some encircled by tiny mounds of dirt. This was hard earth, nearly frozen. Dried-up leaves and spruce needles turned brown. A hush had befallen the land, as still as the inside of a coffin. Such quiet recalled a time before timber had framed houses and a church, before plumbing hooked in hot and cold, before electricity snaked conduit. The trees slept. The creek was iced over.

      At the back of the hollow, there was piled ash and shingle. Sheet metal lengths. Two-by-fours at peculiar angles, their surfaces bubbled and cracked and black. There was a furnace stack, fifty feet high and made from fieldstone. It towered above all that fire had taken, but its mortar was crumbling. A strong wind would soon enough knock it down and stir the ash and frayed black picture-frame wire and lampshade bones below.

      Snow came. It landed silent on a thick sheath of glass, the size and shape of a backyard pond. This glass had run molten, but now it was cooled, its edges rounded, frozen in rolls. A woman walked a circle around it. She held in her hands a Bolex 16mm movie camera. She filmed the glass. Thought for a moment she had seen a fish eye looking up at her from beneath.

      This tract of land had known many names. Bonecutter Ridge, Marrowbone Cut, the Land of Canaan.

      A German hog butcher named Knochenbauer had settled it in 1798. He’d entered into common-law СКАЧАТЬ