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| Great Expectations |
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| Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini |
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| Treasure Island |
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| Half of a Yellow Sun |
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| Comme un roman |
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| Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses |
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| Stupro: Una storia d’amore |
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| The Secret History |
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| The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible |
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| Julia Child: A Life |
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| A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter |
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| The Year of Magical Thinking |
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| Henry IV, Part 2: (Oxford World's Classics) |
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| Muro di fuoco: Le inchieste del commissario Kurt Wallander |
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| Within the Hollow Crown: A Reluctant King, a Desperate Nation, and the Most Misunderstood Reign in History |
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| Brokeback Mountain |
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| Mansfield Park |
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| Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey |
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| La grande dinastia dei paperi - 1958-59 - Vol. 17: Paperino e il vascello fantasma e altre storie |
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| Segreti dei Gonzaga |
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| Tu vipera gentile |
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| Paperodissea e altri capolavori della letteratura universale |
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| Cent'anni di solitudine |
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| Londra. Usato e vintage |
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| Ai piani bassi |
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| La sposa americana |
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| Gone Girl |
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| Emma: An Annotated Edition |
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| Little Men |
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| Un polpo alla gola |
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| La profezia dell'armadillo |
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| Come le mosche d'autunno |
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| Death Is Not the End: (Criminal Records Series) |
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| A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings |
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| Standing in Another Man's Grave |
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| Contes du jour et de la nuit |
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| Daddy-Long-Legs |
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| Prayers for Rain |
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| Emotionally Weird |
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| La grande Caterina |
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| Persuasion |
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| Sweet Tooth |
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| Amerigo: Il racconto di un errore storico |
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| Queen Emma and the Vikings |
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| Sashenka |
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| Mrs. Manstey's View and Other Stories (Dodo Press) |
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| The Angel at the Grave, and the Verdict (Dodo Press) |
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| A Venetian Night's Entertainment |
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| The Choice, and Coming Home (Dodo Press) |
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| Xingu |
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Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of thing unsaid and now unsayable--admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears--rose around them. Ennis stood as if earshot, face grey and deep-lined, grimacing, eyes screwed shut, fists clenched, legs caving, hit the ground on h ... (continue)
Like vast clouds of steam from thermal springs in winter the years of thing unsaid and now unsayable--admissions, declarations, shames, guilts, fears--rose around them. Ennis stood as if earshot, face grey and deep-lined, grimacing, eyes screwed shut, fists clenched, legs caving, hit the ground on his knees. "Jesus," said Jack. "Ennis?" But before he was out of the truck, trying to guess if it was heart attack or the overflow of an incendiary rage, Ennis was back on his feet and somehow, as a coat hanger is straightened to open a locked car and then bent again to its original shape, they torqued things almost to where they had been, for what they'd said was no news. Nothing ended, nothing begun, nothing resolved.
What Jack remembered and craved in a way he could neither help nor understand was the time that distant summer on Brokeback when Ennis had come up behind him and pulled him close, the silent embrace satisfying some shared and sexless hunger. They had stood that way for a long time in front of the fire, its burnings tossing ruddy chunks of light, the shadow of their bodies a single column against the rock. The minutes ticked by from the round watch in Ennis's pocket, from the sticks in the fire settling into coals. Stars bit through the wavy heat layers above the fire. Ennis's breath came slow and quiet, he hummed, rocked a little in the sparklight and Jack leaned against the steady heartbeat, the vibrations of the humming like faint electricity and, standing, he fell into sleep that was not sleep but something else drowsy and tranced until Ennis, dredging up a rusty but still useable phrase from the childhood time before his mother died, said, "Time to hit the hay, cowboy, I got a go. Come on, you're sleeping on your feet like a horse." and gave Jack a shake, a push, and went off in the darkness. Jack heard spurs tremble as he mounted, the words "see you tomorrow," and the horse's shuddering snort, grind of hoof on stone. Later, the dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happines in their separate and difficult lives. Nothing marred it, even the knowledge that Ennis would not embrace him face to face because he did not want to see nor feel that it was Jack he held. And maybe, he thought, they'd never got much farther than that.