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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... feet into scuffed brown brogues with rubber soles. He owned two pairs of shoes — the other pair was black with leather soles — but, at this moment, brogues seemed the more appropriate. He wouldn't be heard walking in them and they would ...
... feet into scuffed brown brogues with rubber soles. He owned two pairs of shoes — the other pair was black with leather soles — but, at this moment, brogues seemed the more appropriate. He wouldn't be heard walking in them and they would ...
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... feet , across the dry grass of a lost Malayan summer , was scrawled in blue ink , ' Bob : Penang , 1939 ' . The night before , as on the nights before that , he had forgotten to wind the clock and it had run down at 2.09 . Even after ...
... feet , across the dry grass of a lost Malayan summer , was scrawled in blue ink , ' Bob : Penang , 1939 ' . The night before , as on the nights before that , he had forgotten to wind the clock and it had run down at 2.09 . Even after ...
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... feet wide , ten feet high and overlooking the arc of the hotel front drive . Cautiously he put his head around the corner of the building . The main entrance was deserted , like the rest of the hotel . He could see the marble steps ...
... feet wide , ten feet high and overlooking the arc of the hotel front drive . Cautiously he put his head around the corner of the building . The main entrance was deserted , like the rest of the hotel . He could see the marble steps ...
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... feet and automatically from right to left . A few houses with deep - set balconies now stood where gardens had once been laid out . But the soil was poor and vegetables had found it hard to gain sustenance . So had men . An elderly ...
... feet and automatically from right to left . A few houses with deep - set balconies now stood where gardens had once been laid out . But the soil was poor and vegetables had found it hard to gain sustenance . So had men . An elderly ...
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... feet above the waterline . The turnstile chattered as he pushed through it . Once on the ferry pier , he followed the other passengers along a planking walk that was roofed over but open on one side . A ferry had just sailed from the ...
... feet above the waterline . The turnstile chattered as he pushed through it . Once on the ferry pier , he followed the other passengers along a planking walk that was roofed over but open on one side . A ferry had just sailed from the ...
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