Stolen Pleasures. Gina Berriault

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      Table of Contents

       Title Page

       Introduction

       A Dream of Fair Women

       The Infinite Passion of Expectation

       Nights in the Gardens of Spain

       Death of a Lesser Man

       Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?

       The Stone Boy

       The Mistress

       The Bystander

       The Tea Ceremony

       Sublime Child

       Stolen Pleasures

       The Diary of K. W.

       FEBRUARY 7

       FEBRUARY 9

       FEBRUARY 11

       FEBRUARY 16

       FEBRUARY 21

       FEBRUARY 24

       MARCH 2

       MARCH 6

       MARCH 9

       NIGHT OF THE SAME DAY

       MARCH 15

       MARCH 29

       APRIL 7

       APRIL 9

       APRIL 11

       APRIL 12

       APRIL 13

       APRIL 14

       THE NEXT DAY

       THE LAST DAY

       The Light at Birth

       Women in Their Beds

       Myra

       The Island of Ven

       Works of the Imagination

       The Search for J. Kruper

       The Cove

       Lives of the Saints

       The Overcoat

       About the Author

       Copyright Page

       Introduction

      By Jane Vandenburgh

      GINA BERRIAULT CAME into life and her own very acute state of sensitivity and awareness during the late 1920s in one of our dimmer coastal towns—Long Beach was then so parochial it was known as “Iowa-by-the-Sea.”

      Richard Yates, in his tribute to Berriault’s work, calls her California “that warm and dismaying place.” Here she is, in the title story from this volume, describing a street in just such a town:

      Every house had a palm tree and a lawn, and some had a piano inside, a dark, sternly upright object in its own realm called the living room. Delia and her family had no piano and therefore СКАЧАТЬ