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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Page 3
... skin . Slowly , he reached for the battered alarm clock that rested on the glass top of the bedside table . Under its cracked leather case was arranged a set of hotel rules and a tariff card ; between these he had lodged a tattered ...
... skin . Slowly , he reached for the battered alarm clock that rested on the glass top of the bedside table . Under its cracked leather case was arranged a set of hotel rules and a tariff card ; between these he had lodged a tattered ...
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... skin he noticed , as he so often did , its faint pallor and coarseness . His massage also caused tiny shards of tissue to flake off , as if his arm had dandruff . The minute jabbing pains that he felt as his hand passed over the flesh ...
... skin he noticed , as he so often did , its faint pallor and coarseness . His massage also caused tiny shards of tissue to flake off , as if his arm had dandruff . The minute jabbing pains that he felt as his hand passed over the flesh ...
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... a halt at the junction leading up the hill . At the wheel sat a beautiful Eurasian girl in her mid- twenties . Her cheekbones were soft , her skin the cool cream so common in such a mixture of races and her deep SPRING 1952 15.
... a halt at the junction leading up the hill . At the wheel sat a beautiful Eurasian girl in her mid- twenties . Her cheekbones were soft , her skin the cool cream so common in such a mixture of races and her deep SPRING 1952 15.
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... skin of a young man . ' So things are not so good for you , ' he commented as Sanding- ham came to the end of his statement of his current affairs . " That is bad , very bad . Time you had a job . ' Leung laughed and Sandingham joined ...
... skin of a young man . ' So things are not so good for you , ' he commented as Sanding- ham came to the end of his statement of his current affairs . " That is bad , very bad . Time you had a job . ' Leung laughed and Sandingham joined ...
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... skin showed higher up his thighs . The material had also wedged into the crack between his buttocks , accentuating their round firmness . His head was under the hedge , but even in the shade the sun caught his blond hair and gave it a ...
... skin showed higher up his thighs . The material had also wedged into the crack between his buttocks , accentuating their round firmness . His head was under the hedge , but even in the shade the sun caught his blond hair and gave it a ...
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