Powers Kevin Yellow Birds Издательство: Hodder&Stoughton Жанр: Hodder and Stoughton Качество: Хорошее Страниц: 240 Формат: pdf, fb2, epub And yes, it was full of naivety and boyishness, but that is all right, because we were boys then. It makes me love him a little, even now, to remember him sitting beneath the hawthorn tree, sad that his girl had left him, but without anger or resentment, despite being only a few hours removed from all the killing of the night before. He sat there in the dark. We spoke like children. We looked at each other as if into a dim mirror. I remember that part of him fondly, before he was lost, before he surrendered fully to the war, twisting through the air, perhaps one beat of his heart remaining. Succinct, intense and beautifully written, this is the story of John Bartle, a young soldier who has just returned home from Iraq.
