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Название книги: The Known World
Автор(ы): Edward Jones
Жанр: Современная проза
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TO MY BROTHERJOSEPH V. JONESAnd, again,TO THE MEMORY OF OUR MOTHER JEANETTE S.M. JONESwho could have done much more in a better world.My soul’s often wondered how I got over…
1 Liaison. The Warmth of Family. Stormy Weather.
The evening his master died he worked again well after he ended the day for the other adults, his own wife among them, and sent them back with hunger and tiredness to their cabins. The young ones, his son among them, had been sent out of the fields an hour or so before the adults, to prepare the late supper and, if there was time enough, to play in the few minutes of sun that were left. When he, Moses, finally freed himself of the ancient and brittle harness that connected him to the oldest mule his master owned, all that was left of the sun was a five-inch-long memory of red orange laid out in still waves across the horizon between two mountains on the left and one on the right. He had been in the fields for all of fourteen hours. He paused before leaving the fields as the evening
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