📗 Libro en inglés ALL THE KING S MEN

PENGUIN - 9780141026961

Literatura en inglés

Sinopsis de ALL THE KING S MEN

To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it. You look up the highway and it is straight for miles, coming at you, with the black line down the center coming at and at you, black and slick and tarry-shining against the white of the slab, and the heat dazzles up from the white slab so that only the black line is clear, coming at you with the whine of the tires, and if you don't quit staring at that line and don't take a few deep breaths and slap yourself hard on the back of the neck you'll hypnotize yourself and you'll come to just at the moment when the right front wheel hooks over into the black dirt shoulder off the slab, and you'll try to jerk her back on but you can't because the slab is high like a curb, and maybe you'll try to reach to turn off the ignition just as she starts the dive. But you won't make it, of course. Then a nigger chopping cotton a mile away, he'll look up and see the little column of black smoke standing up above the vitriolic, arsenical green of the cotton rows, and up against the violent, metallic, throbbing blue of the sky, and he'll say, "Lawd God, hit's a-nudder one done done hit!" And the next nigger down the next row, he'll say, "Lawd God" and the first nigger will giggle, and the hoe will lift again and the blade will flash in the sun like a heliograph. Then a few days later the boys from the Highway Department will mark the spot with a little metal square on a metal rod stuck in the black dirt off the shoulder, the metal square painted white and on it in black a skull and crossbones. Later on love vine will climb up it, out of the weeds.

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Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 9780141026961

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 662
Tiempo de lectura:
13h 45m

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Fecha de lanzamiento: 26/10/2006

Año de edición: 2006

Plaza de edición: London
Alto: 21.0 cm
Ancho: 13.0 cm

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Escrito por ROBERT PENN WARREN


Robert Penn es un periodista y escritor que publica en The Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, FT, Independent on Sunday y Conde Nast Traveler, además de muchas publicaciones sobre ciclismo. Presentó el documental BBC4 / 2 'Ride of My Life: the Story of the Bicycle' y la serie de BBC4 'Tales from the Wild Wood'. Recorrió en bicicleta la autopista transamazónica con Freddie Flintoff para hacer 'Road to Nowhere', calificado por The Times como “brillantemente contado”. Ha escrito los libros “The Sky is falling on our heads”, “The Wrong Kind of Snow” y “The man who made things out of trees”.
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