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Книга "Bird box"

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  1. dedication Sometimes I wish I were an arch...
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    2. dedication Sometimes I wish I were an architect, so that I could dedicate a buil...
    3. contents Dedication One Two Three Four Five...
    4. one Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking. Her hands are damp. She is tr...
    5. two It is nine months before the children are born. Malorie lives with her siste...
    6. three How far can a person hear? Rowing blindfolded is even harder than Ma...
    7. four Malorie is driving. The sisters use her car, a 1999 Ford Festiva, because t...
    8. five It is six months before the children are born. Malorie is showing. Blankets...
    9. six What is it, Boy?” “Did you hear that?” “What? What did you hear?...
    10. seven Riverbridge. Malorie has been to this area once, several years befor...
    11. eight Malorie wakes in her new bedroom. It is dark. For one blessed moment, the ...
    12. nine Creatures,” Malorie thinks. What a cheap word. The children are quiet...
    13. ten Malorie has been living in the house for two weeks. The housemates subsist a...
    14. eleven Malorie has been rowing for what feels like three hours. The muscles in h...
    15. twelve Tom is building something out of an old soft guitar case and a couch cush...
    16. thirteen Felix is taking the path toward the well. One of the housemates’ six bu...
    17. fourteen Cold river water splashes across Malorie’s pants as she rows. Each time...
    18. fifteen I’m not drinking that water,” Malorie says. The housemates are exh...
    19. sixteen On the river, Malorie feels the heat of the midday sun. Instead of bring...
    20. seventeen They’re scared of us,” Olympia suddenly says. “What do you mean?...
    21. eighteen As the rowboat glides, taken by the water slowly on its own, Malorie cu...
    22. nineteen Five months along now, Malorie’s pregnancy is developing. It’s the end ...
    23. twenty It is noon the next day. Tom and Jules have not returned. Tom’s twe...
    24. twenty-one Malorie is thinking of Don specifically. “Mommy,” the Boy says,...
    25. twenty-two Malorie hears something moving on the other side of the door. She hea...
    26. twenty-three The moment the door closes behind them, Tom is more afraid than he ...
    27. twenty-four The pain in Malorie’s shoulder is so exact, so detailed, that she ca...
    28. twenty-five The husky is licking Tom’s hand. Jules snores to his left on the car...
    29. twenty-six You’re going to have to open your eyes . . . “You need to eat, ...
    30. twenty-seven Malorie wakes from dreams about babies. It is either early morning ...
    31. twenty-eight It is the next morning. Malorie gets up and gets dressed. It sounds...
    32. twenty-nine Malorie wakes with her eyes closed. It’s not as difficult to do as i...
    33. thirty Cheryl is upset. Malorie hears her talking to Felix in the room dow...
    34. thirty-one To Malorie, since the arrival of Gary, the house feels absolutely dif...
    35. thirty-two She has known this was coming. How could she not? All the signs have ...
    36. thirty-three The river is going to split into four channels, the man told her. T...
    37. thirty-four Malorie is in the upstairs bathroom. It is late and the house is sil...
    38. thirty-five It has been a week since Tom and Jules left for the three-mile walk ...
    39. thirty-six Someone is following them. There is no use asking herself how m...
    40. thirty-seven For the first time since arriving at the house, Malorie knows somet...
    41. thirty-eight D oes Gary follow you? The sounds of ...
    42. thirty-nine Don is in the cellar. Don is always in the cellar. He sleeps down th...
    43. forty It is what Malorie will later consider to be the last night in the house, ...
    44. forty-one The birds in the trees are restless. It sounds like a thousand branche...
    45. forty-two . . . she does. Malorie sits up in bed and grips her belly befor...
    46. forty-three Tom’s recorded voice plays over again. He is leaving a message...
    47. acknowledgments While writing Bird Box, I heard mention of a mythological creatu...
    48. about the author Photo by Doug Coombe JOSH MALERMAN...
    49. credits Cover design by Stuart Bache Cover photograph © by Julio Calvo/Mil...
    50. copyright This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogu...
    51. about the publisher Australia HarperCollins Publishers (Au...