Tree of Smoke: A NovelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M09 4 - 624 páginas Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 83
... There was one small nightspot on the island, a dilapidated club with big revolving fans in the ceiling and one bar ... There were supposed to be some wild boars roaming this island military resort, which was all he had seen so far of the ...
... There's more about him.” “Okay,” Houston said. He drank some ice water and listened to the radio, but he suffered such a headache right now he couldn't make out any of the words. After a while the officer came in wearing a gigantic ...
... There you'll have work and freedom.” “But we've been on our own a long time. We're already free.” “On the farm it's ... There's nothing else we can do. We'll go north. But tonight the moon is empty. We can't travel tomorrow. Right after ...
... There's a vampire about. A kind of vampire called aswang.” The German said, “Vampire? You mean Dracula?” “The aswang can turn into any person, assume any shape. You see instantly the trouble—it means anybody can be a vampire. When a ...
... now. I'm going to tell you, Skip: sometimes I wonder if it isn't the goddamn Alamo. This is a fallen world. Every time we turn around there's somebody else going Red.” “But it's not just a contest between good and evil,”
Contenido
Sección 15 | |
Sección 16 | |
Sección 17 | |
Sección 18 | |
Sección 19 | |
Sección 20 | |
Sección 21 | |
Sección 22 | |
Sección 9 | |
Sección 10 | |
Sección 11 | |
Sección 12 | |
Sección 13 | |
Sección 14 | |
Sección 23 | |
Sección 24 | |
Sección 25 | |
Sección 26 | |