Childish Things. Robin Jenkins
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Название: Childish Things
Автор: Robin Jenkins
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Контркультура
isbn: 9780857863768
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A Figure of Fun (London, Gollancz, 1974)
A Would-Be Saint
(London, Gollancz, 1978; New York, Taplinger, 1980)
Fergus Lamont
(Edinburgh, Canongate, and New York, Taplinger, 1979; Canongate Classic, 1990)
The Awakening of George Darroch (Edinburgh, Harris, 1985)
Just Duffy (Edinburgh, Canongate, 1988; Canongate Classic, 1995)
Poverty Castle (Nairn, Balnain, 1991)
Willie Hogg (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1993)
Leila (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1995)
Lunderston Tales (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1996)
Matthew and Sheila (Edinburgh, Polygon, 1998)
Poor Angus (Edinburgh, Canongate, 2000)
Contents
PART ONE
‘When I became a man I put away childish things’
1
Let’s admit it, in all our activities, golf and war, politics and religion, there is an element of childishness. Truly adult persons are as rare as saints. There was only one at the grave that sunny September afternoon: the woman in the coffin, my Kate, dead from cancer, bravely and humorously endured.
Take the minister, the Rev. Dugald Abercrombie, white-haired and gaunt, with an involuntary girn in his voice. After half a century of having his exhortations politely disregarded, he could not help sounding disappointed and a little resentful. His СКАЧАТЬ