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Автор: C.H.B.Kitchin
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 220
ISBN: 9781939140258
'Mr Kitchin is an enjoyably ruthless writer.' - Punch 'Ten Pollitt Place is written in another language. It is another world. . . . [T]he observation is delightful. It is beautifully done.' - The Observer 'Mr Kitchin is still writing the traditional, well-bred, upper-English-middle-class novel. He does it finely, with a loving art.' - The Spectator 'Before the end of this year someone in this house is going to die.' This is the terrible prophecy of fifteen-year-old Hugo, who possesses an uncanny gift of second sight. But who will it be? Maybe old Miss Tredennick, seventy-six, whose outrage at the prostitute across the street could bring on a stroke. Or perhaps aging novelist Justin Bray, once popular, but increasingly ignored by critics and booksellers. Then there are the Fawleys, trapped in a loveless marriage that Mr Fawley wants to escape so he can marry the housekeeper, Magda. Or could it be Hugo himself, the disabled boy with an unrequited passion for...
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