Listening for Small SoundsAllen & Unwin, 1996 - 157 páginas Despite violence, a married couple remains true to the vow, for better or for worse. The events are seen through the eyes of Joss, 9, whose alcoholic father repeatedly abuses her placid mother, even if he sometimes apologizes. Joss does not understand why her mother puts up with it. One day she will and be glad for it. A first novel by an Australian writer. |
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... doors and windows . Maria spends her life chasing things out of her house : germs with buckets of bleach and her husband with the broom . But only on Saturdays when his whiskers have grown and he has the sweet smell of wine about him ...
... doors and windows . Maria spends her life chasing things out of her house : germs with buckets of bleach and her husband with the broom . But only on Saturdays when his whiskers have grown and he has the sweet smell of wine about him ...
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... door . The garden is overgrown with eucalyptus and cold with the shadows of late afternoon . Joss gathers twigs and dry leaves and builds a small fire in an old tin box . She gets her paints from the woodshed and colours her legs and ...
... door . The garden is overgrown with eucalyptus and cold with the shadows of late afternoon . Joss gathers twigs and dry leaves and builds a small fire in an old tin box . She gets her paints from the woodshed and colours her legs and ...
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... door slams shut . Joss looks at her mother . Her mother has stilled her body . She is listening , like an animal , for small sounds . Sounds that slide almost unheard , across the radio's rich promise . ' Fly me to the moon and let me ...
... door slams shut . Joss looks at her mother . Her mother has stilled her body . She is listening , like an animal , for small sounds . Sounds that slide almost unheard , across the radio's rich promise . ' Fly me to the moon and let me ...
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... door when she was a child . The gentle , loyal dog who was fed a bait and went crazy and bit his owner . And of the sadness in the dog's eyes , when all the fight went out of him , just before he died . Suddenly her father reaches up ...
... door when she was a child . The gentle , loyal dog who was fed a bait and went crazy and bit his owner . And of the sadness in the dog's eyes , when all the fight went out of him , just before he died . Suddenly her father reaches up ...
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... steps behind them . ' They didn't mean anything Richard . They're pleased for you . ' Her father lets go of Joss's hand and opens the back door of the car . Joss gets in . ' I'd like to know where they were a year 7 The Pub ...
... steps behind them . ' They didn't mean anything Richard . They're pleased for you . ' Her father lets go of Joss's hand and opens the back door of the car . Joss gets in . ' I'd like to know where they were a year 7 The Pub ...
Conteúdo
Seção 13 | 90 |
Seção 14 | 100 |
Seção 15 | 109 |
Seção 16 | 114 |
Seção 17 | 118 |
Seção 18 | 127 |
Seção 19 | 138 |
Seção 20 | 143 |
Termos e frases comuns
Ajax alright asks Aurora Australian/Vogel Literary Award back door bathroom bedroom blokes from Talimorgan bloody Coco Pops corner Daddy dinner dolls dressed drink eyes front door fucking girl glass goes upstairs going grass hand head inside Joss climbs Joss doesn't Joss feels Joss finds Joss goes Joss hears Joss knows Joss looks Joss puts Joss runs Joss sits Joss takes Joss thinks Joss walks Joss watches Joss's friend Joss's mother kitchen later alligator laughs laundromat roof leans legs listens little mouse lounge room Lygon Street Mick Jagger milk bar Misi morning mother comes mother turns never night No-one Otto Preminger park pulls Richard river says her mother says Joss shakes Sister Beatrice sleep slides smell smiles stairs stands Stella stops talk tells Joss There's thing Uncle Bob Uncle Rupert voice waits whispers window yabbies
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Página 13 - twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt : the strong-based promontory Have I made shake ; and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar : graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers ; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art.
Página 10 - Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream.
Página 135 - A sailor went to sea, sea, sea To see what he could see, see, see. But all that he could see, see, see Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.
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