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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... 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 tells her mother everything in a rumbling whisper . When he goes her mother shakes her head . ' He's such a ...
... 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 tells her mother everything in a rumbling whisper . When he goes her mother shakes her head . ' He's such a ...
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... tells Joss the story about the black dog that lived next - 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 ...
... tells Joss the story about the black dog that lived next - 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 ...
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... tells Joss that this new job is exactly what her father needs . Her mother's eyes are cloudy with hope . Joss scratches her nose and looks at her mother . ' Yes , I know , ' says her mother . ' You should never hope too hard for ...
... tells Joss that this new job is exactly what her father needs . Her mother's eyes are cloudy with hope . Joss scratches her nose and looks at her mother . ' Yes , I know , ' says her mother . ' You should never hope too hard for ...
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... tell her how lucky she is . And when they leave the restaurant , Joss always takes her father's hand , which is how he likes it . ' You're a good girl JJ , ' says her mother . But they can't go out every night and soon the tirades start ...
... tell her how lucky she is . And when they leave the restaurant , Joss always takes her father's hand , which is how he likes it . ' You're a good girl JJ , ' says her mother . But they can't go out every night and soon the tirades start ...
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... ' he says . Joss nods . ' Come on then lets go ! ' At the restaurant her father tells her mother how beautiful she is . He butters her up . By the end of the evening the three of them are laughing and when they 12 LISTENING FOR SMALL ...
... ' he says . Joss nods . ' Come on then lets go ! ' At the restaurant her father tells her mother how beautiful she is . He butters her up . By the end of the evening the three of them are laughing and when they 12 LISTENING FOR SMALL ...
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
Pasajes populares
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.
Página 80 - Come! Sing a song of joy, For peace shall come, my brother! Sing! Sing a song of joy, For men shall love each other! Clark Kent was a very bright boy of fourteen. He played the violin. He was brought to the attention of the Four Aliens And A Giant In A Forbidden World; A True Story people at The Lighthouse through one of China Light's Americans who taught him at the biggest private school in the city, with about...