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Название книги: The Privileges
Автор(ы): Jonathan Dee
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Privileges-159955.html
Copyright © 2010 by Jonathan DeeFor their inestimable help, the author wishes to thank Amanda Urban, Ann Patty, Jennifer Smith, Todd Kumble, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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A WEDDING! THE FIRST OF a generation; the bride and groom are just twenty-two, young to be married these days. Most of their friends flew in yesterday, and though they are in Pittsburgh, a city of half a million, they affect a good-natured snobbish disorientation, because they come from New York and Chicago but also because it suits their sense of the whole event, the magical disquieting novelty of it, to imagine that they are now in the middle of nowhere. They have all, of course, as children or teenagers, sat through the wedding of some uncle or cousin or in quite a few cases their own mother or father, so they know in that sense what to expect. But this is their first time as actual friends and contemporaries of the betrothed; and the strange, anarchic exuberance they feel is tied to
Название книги: The Privileges
Автор(ы): Jonathan Dee
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Privileges-159955.html
Copyright © 2010 by Jonathan DeeFor their inestimable help, the author wishes to thank Amanda Urban, Ann Patty, Jennifer Smith, Todd Kumble, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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A WEDDING! THE FIRST OF a generation; the bride and groom are just twenty-two, young to be married these days. Most of their friends flew in yesterday, and though they are in Pittsburgh, a city of half a million, they affect a good-natured snobbish disorientation, because they come from New York and Chicago but also because it suits their sense of the whole event, the magical disquieting novelty of it, to imagine that they are now in the middle of nowhere. They have all, of course, as children or teenagers, sat through the wedding of some uncle or cousin or in quite a few cases their own mother or father, so they know in that sense what to expect. But this is their first time as actual friends and contemporaries of the betrothed; and the strange, anarchic exuberance they feel is tied to
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