YoungJaneYoung - (EPUB全文下载)
文件大小:0.35 mb。
文件格式:epub 格式。
书籍内容:
Also by GABRIELLE ZEVIN
BOOKS FOR ADULTS
Margarettown
The Hole We’re In
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Elsewhere
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
All These Things I’ve Done
Because It Is My Blood
In the Age of Love and Chocolate
COPYRIGHT
Published by Little, Brown
978-1-4087-0979-5
All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Copyright © Gabrielle Zevin 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.
The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.
LITTLE, BROWN
Little, Brown Book Group
Carmelite House
50 Victoria Embankment
London, EC4Y 0DZ
www.littlebrown.co.uk
www.hachette.co.uk
Young Jane Young
a novel
Gabrielle Zevin
Table of Contents
I: Bubbe Meise
II: Wherever You Go, There You Are
III: Thirteen, or a Few Interesting Facts About Maine
IV: Angel in the House
V: Choose
I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.
“AMAZE” BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY
I
Bubbe Meise
RACHEL
ONE
My dear friend Roz Horowitz met her new husband online dating, and Roz is three years older and fifty pounds heavier than I am, and people have said that she is generally not as well preserved, and so I thought I would try it even though I avoid going online too much. Roz’s last husband died of colon cancer, and she deserves her happiness. Not that this new husband is anything special – his name is Tony and he used to be in the auto glass business in New Jersey. But Roz fixed him up and took him shopping for shirts at Bloomingdale’s, and now they’re taking all these classes at the JCC together – Conversational Spanish and Ballroom Dancing and Massage for Lovers and Creative Soap and Candle Making. I don’t particularly want a husband. They’re a lot of work, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my life alone either, and it would be nice to have someone to go to classes with is what I’m saying. I thought online dating was for younger people, but Roz says it’s not. “Even if it is,” she says, “Rachel, you’re younger now than you’ll ever be.”
So I ask Roz if she has any advice and she says do ............
书籍插图:
以上为书籍内容预览,如需阅读全文内容请下载EPUB源文件,祝您阅读愉快。
书云 Open E-Library » YoungJaneYoung - (EPUB全文下载)