Hiroshima Joe: A NovelPicador, 2013 M10 8 - 304 pages One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985 |
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... dark trousers, with frayed turn-ups. They were old and slightly long for him — hardly surprising, as they had not been tailored to fit him. He put on unwashed grey socks and slipped his feet into scuffed brown brogues with rubber soles ...
... dark trousers, with frayed turn-ups. They were old and slightly long for him — hardly surprising, as they had not been tailored to fit him. He put on unwashed grey socks and slipped his feet into scuffed brown brogues with rubber soles ...
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... darkness of the room it looked whitely ill . His entire body was damp with sweat and the cotton sheet that covered him stuck to his back and clung to his vertebrae where they showed through the skin . Slowly , he reached for the ...
... darkness of the room it looked whitely ill . His entire body was damp with sweat and the cotton sheet that covered him stuck to his back and clung to his vertebrae where they showed through the skin . Slowly , he reached for the ...
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... dark to light green and then to a peachy cream that developed into the soft , subtle yellow of maturity . From the present tree he had never seen any fruit drop . It was always picked by someone unseen . It was as if they came in the ...
... dark to light green and then to a peachy cream that developed into the soft , subtle yellow of maturity . From the present tree he had never seen any fruit drop . It was always picked by someone unseen . It was as if they came in the ...
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... dark trousers , with frayed turn - ups . They were old and slightly long for him - hardly surprising , as they had not been tailored to fit him . He put on unwashed grey socks and slipped his feet into scuffed brown brogues with rubber ...
... dark trousers , with frayed turn - ups . They were old and slightly long for him - hardly surprising , as they had not been tailored to fit him . He put on unwashed grey socks and slipped his feet into scuffed brown brogues with rubber ...
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... dark semi - circular stains under his armpits . He could not have been more than eighteen or nineteen . For a split second Sandingham thought he was wearing a soft , khaki peaked hat but then he blinked as a quick flash of sun came off ...
... dark semi - circular stains under his armpits . He could not have been more than eighteen or nineteen . For a split second Sandingham thought he was wearing a soft , khaki peaked hat but then he blinked as a quick flash of sun came off ...
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