Postcards. Annie Proulx

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СКАЧАТЬ 15 The Indian’s Book

       16 The Bigger They Are the Higher They Burn

       17 The Weeping Water Farm Insurance Office

       18 What I See

       19 The Lonely Hearts Prisoner

       20 The Bottle-Shaped Tombstone

       21 The Drive

       22 The Dermatologist in the Wild Wood

       23 Ott’s Lots

       24 The Indian’s Book Again

       III

       25 Garden of Eden

       26 Bullet Wulff

       27 Crazy Eyes

       28 The Kernel of life

       29 Dazed and Confused

       30 The Troubles of Celestial Bodies

       31 Toot Nipple

       32 Pala

       33 Obregón’s Arm

       34 Tumbleweed

       35 What I See

       36 Shotguns

       37 The Indian’s Book

       38 Looks Like Rain

       39 The Logging Road

       IV

       40 The Gallbladders of Black Bears

       41 The Tropical Garden

       42 What I See

       43 The Skeleton with Its Dress Pulled Up

       44 The Runty Rider Curses Judges

       45 The Lone One

       46 What I See

       47 The Red-Haired Coyote

       V

       48 The Hat Man

       49 What I See

       50 The One Only One

       51 The Red-Shirt Coyote

       52 La Violencia

       53 The Fulgurite Shaped Like a Bone

       54 What I See

       55 The White Spider

       56 The Face in the Moss

       57 The Jet Trail in the Windshield

       58 What I See

       Acknowledgments

       Also By Annie Proulx

       About the Publisher

      ‘But that’s the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.’

      DASHIELL HAMMETT, The Maltese Falcon

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       1 Blood

      EVEN BEFORE HE GOT UP he knew he was on his way. Even in the midst of the involuntary orgasmic jerking he knew. Knew she was dead, knew he was on his way. Even standing there on shaking legs, trying to push the copper buttons through the stiff buttonholes he knew that everything he had done or thought in his life had to be started over again. Even if he got away.

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