GirlParts - (EPUB全文下载)
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.Copyright © 2010 by John M. CusickCover photograph copyright © 2010 by Scott NoblesAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.First electronic edition 2010The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:Cusick, John.Girl parts / John Cusick. — 1st U.S. ed.p. cm.Summary: The lives of David, wealthy and popular but still lonely, and Charlie, a soulful outsider, intersect when Rose, the female Companion bot David’s parents buy to treat his dissociative disorder, forms a bond with Charlie.ISBN 978-0-7636-4930-2 (hardcover)[1. Science fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations — Fiction. 3. Robots — Fiction. 4. Social classes — Fiction. 5. Dissociative disorders — Fiction. 6. Popularity — Fiction. 7. Family life — Massachusetts — Fiction. 8. Massachusetts — Fiction.] I. Title.PZ7.C9644Gir 2010[Fic] — dc22 2009047399ISBN 978-0-7636-5195-4 (electronic)Candlewick Press99 Dover StreetSomerville, Massachusetts 02144visit us at www.candlewick.com
The room was empty and black save for the blue eye of the computer and the yellow wedge beneath the door. Shapes crouched in the darkness — the dresser, a desk, a bed with adjacent night table. The bed had a lived-in look, the tousled sheets littered with crumbs and stained with ink, cola, coffee. The stars-and-moons comforter lay bunched against the headboard, along with a threadbare teddy bear and Mary Poppins pillow missing its spangles. Books and magazines were shoved to the wall, into the gap, along with countless socks, balled underwear, lost pens, scraps of paper, and secret journals, their pages bulging with ticket stubs and pasted photographs.It was quiet. The analog clock went teck.As if on cue, the door opened, spotlighting the posters on the wall — Monroe, Dean, Bogart, and the tragic Entwistle. A girl in creased white pajamas shuffled in, arms full. She closed the door, shutting out the yellow glare, and set her burdens on the desk. She pressed the flat monitor button. The computer hummed. The blue eye watched.She stood the blender, filled with ice, and the liter of Coke off to one side. She placed the third ............
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