Название: Gents
Автор: Warwick Collins
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007391783
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GENTS
A novel
Warwick Collins
Published by The Friday Project, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Marion Boyars Publishers
This edition published in 2007 by The Friday Project
Text © 2007 Warwick Collins
Warwick Collins asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
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Ebook Edition © JULY 2016 ISBN 9780007391783 Version: 2016-07-18
To Scott Pack
CONTENTS
At Charing Cross the two underground trains passed each other like tongues of flame. Ez Murphy saw, in the window’s reflection between a young girl and an elderly woman, his own face dark with the lights shining white on his broad cheekbones.
The trains roared and razored in the confined tunnel. As they crossed, his faded image, obscure against the glossy dark, was thrown into sudden prominence by the rush of white lights behind it. The faces of the two women became ghostly, obliterated by the surging luminescence.
He was in his early forties, well-dressed, stocky, broad-shouldered. In the reflection opposite, his hands floated up to adjust his tie, a startling negative against the washed white of his collar. The two trains passed. During the ensuing silence the faces of the women were restored again, two white flowers.
The train traversed several other stations before it finally slid to a stop with СКАЧАТЬ