Flying in PlaceTor Publishing Group, 01 ապր, 2010 թ. - 192 էջ Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. |
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... body to try to get away from them , away from the bars and the grayness and the noise . My mother said that dawn was the noisiest time of day because of the birds , but birdsong wasn't the sound I dreaded . Breathing was . " Emma ...
... body a few weeks before , after years of feigned sleep , and I was still surprised at how easy it was : one of those skills that seems impossible at first but quickly becomes second nature , like tying your shoes . Because I wasn't in my ...
... body , if I couldn't get away from the breathing ? " You're a ghost . " " I am ? But ghosts used to be people . Didn't I used to be somebody ? I can't- " " Remember , " I said . " For somebody who made high honor roll every marking ...
... body lying there like a rag doll someone had tossed aside . It was time for me to go back , so I could get up and eat breakfast and go to school . Getting back in was harder than it had been the other times , as if my body were a piece ...
Susan Palwick. your life bound up in tender lives ; it means your body is strong and healthy and doing what it was designed to do . Don't ever be ashamed of that . " I swallowed . I didn't have to invent a poetic lie . She'd done it for ...