PAULLINA SIMONS
ROAD TO PARADISE
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2007
Copyright © Timshel Books 2007
The extract from “i walked the boulevard” is reprinted from COMPLETE POEMS 1904–1962, by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of W.W. Norton & Company. Copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust and George James Firmage.
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Source ISBN: 9780007241583
Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007283439
Version: 2015-03-09
For my husband’s mother, Elaine Ryan, from
the time she was twenty, a mother first
Earth’s crammed with heaven,And every common bush afire with God;But only he who sees, takes off his shoes
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
And all my former life is seenA crazy drowsy beautiful and utterlyappalling dream
ALEXANDER BLOK
Contents
Four: The Light at Picnic Marsh