Полина Саймонс – Road to Paradise (страница 1)
PAULLINA SIMONS
ROAD TO PARADISE
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
Copyright © Timshel Books 2007
The extract from “i walked the boulevard” is reprinted from COMPLETE POEMS 1904–1962, by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of W.W. Norton & Company. Copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust and George James Firmage.
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This novel is a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007241583
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007283439
Version: 2015-03-09
For my husband’s mother, Elaine Ryan, from
the time she was twenty, a mother first
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
ALEXANDER BLOK
Contents
One: The Car
Two: Mary’s Land
Three: On the Erie Canal
Four: The Light at Picnic Marsh
Five: The Road to St. Louis
Six: Isle of Capri
Seven: New Melleray
Eight: Looking for the Missouri