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Автор: Joyce Carol Oates
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       Little Bird of Heaven

      Joyce Carol Oates

       For Charlie Gross

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       13

       14

       15

       16

       17

       18

       19

       20

       21

       22

       23

       24

       25

       Part Two

       26

       27

       28

       29

       30

       31

       32

       33

       34

       35

       36

       37

       38

       39

       40

       41

       42

       43

       44

       45

       46

       45

       Part Three

       1

       2

       Praise

       Also by Joyce Carol Oates

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

Part One

       1

      THE YEARNING IN MY HEART! This was a long time ago.

      “Can’t go inside with you, Krista. But I promise: I won’t drive away until you’re safe indoors.”

      That November evening at dusk we were driving along the river—the Black River, in southern Herkimer County, New York—west and slightly south of the city of Sparta, in this long-ago time swathed in mist and smelling of a slightly metallic damp: the river, the rain.

      There are those of us—daughters—forever daughters, at any age—for whom the smells—likely to be twin, twined—of tobacco smoke and alcohol are not unpleasant but highly attractive, seductive.