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Название книги: Last Night In Twisted River
Автор(ы): John Irving
Жанр: Современная проза
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For Everett -my pioneer, my heroI had a job in the great north woodsWorking as a cook for a spellBut I never did like it all that muchAnd one day the ax just fell.– Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”
I. COOS COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1954
CHAPTER 1.
UNDER THE LOGS
THE YOUNG CANADIAN, WHO COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE than fifteen, had hesitated too long. For a frozen moment, his feet had stopped moving on the floating logs in the basin above the river bend; he’d slipped entirely underwater before anyone could grab his outstretched hand. One of the loggers had reached for the youth’s long hair-the older man’s fingers groped around in the frigid water, which was thick, almost soupy, with sloughed-off slabs of bark. Then two logs collided hard on the would-be rescuer’s arm, breaking his wrist. The carpet of moving logs had completely closed over the young Canadian, who never surfaced; not even a hand or one of his boots broke out of the brown water.Out on a logjam, once the key log was pried l
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