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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... girl has left the tall white boy two houses up when no more smells come from their house . He comes in and tells her mother about it a couple of weeks later . Her mother is shocked . Joss sits at the top of the stairs and listens . He ...
... girl has left the tall white boy two houses up when no more smells come from their house . He comes in and tells her mother about it a couple of weeks later . Her mother is shocked . Joss sits at the top of the stairs and listens . He ...
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... girl JJ , ' says her mother . But they can't go out every night and soon the tirades start . ' They're fucking using me . I drag the performance from those bastards . It's in me not them . ' Then that thing snaps in her father's brain ...
... girl JJ , ' says her mother . But they can't go out every night and soon the tirades start . ' They're fucking using me . I drag the performance from those bastards . It's in me not them . ' Then that thing snaps in her father's brain ...
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... girl . Look at this . She's fucking brilliant . ' Joss doesn't look at her mother she cuddles closer to her Daddy . ' You want Chinese , ' he says . Joss nods . ' Come on then lets go ! ' At the restaurant her father tells her mother ...
... girl . Look at this . She's fucking brilliant . ' Joss doesn't look at her mother she cuddles closer to her Daddy . ' You want Chinese , ' he says . Joss nods . ' Come on then lets go ! ' At the restaurant her father tells her mother ...
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... girls ' voices bounce off the concrete play- ground . Joss practises hurdling the tennis net . She doesn't like little girls very much . But her friend is with them , so when she has finished her jumping , sticky and red , she wanders ...
... girls ' voices bounce off the concrete play- ground . Joss practises hurdling the tennis net . She doesn't like little girls very much . But her friend is with them , so when she has finished her jumping , sticky and red , she wanders ...
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... girls . Ann puts her hands on her hips . ' There a kind of shellfish , ' says Joss's friend . ' They're what pearls come from . ' ' Do you eat the pearls ? ' ' Course not , stupid , ' says Ann . The bell rings . Joss's friend grabs her ...
... girls . Ann puts her hands on her hips . ' There a kind of shellfish , ' says Joss's friend . ' They're what pearls come from . ' ' Do you eat the pearls ? ' ' Course not , stupid , ' says Ann . The bell rings . Joss's friend grabs her ...
Contenido
Sección 13 | 90 |
Sección 14 | 100 |
Sección 15 | 109 |
Sección 16 | 114 |
Sección 17 | 118 |
Sección 18 | 127 |
Sección 19 | 138 |
Sección 20 | 143 |
Sección 9 | 58 |
Sección 10 | 63 |
Sección 11 | 69 |
Sección 12 | 82 |
Sección 21 | 148 |
Sección 22 | 153 |
Sección 23 | 156 |
Términos y frases comunes
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.
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