The Editor. Steven Rowley

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Название The Editor
Автор произведения Steven Rowley
Жанр Современная зарубежная литература
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isbn 9780008333256



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       Copyright

      The Borough Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Steven Rowley 2019

      Steven Rowley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008333249

      Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008333256

      Version: 2019-03-08

       Praise for The Editor:

      ‘The Editor offers a delightful fictional glimpse of an iconic American family – but it is, at heart, a tribute to every family whose last name isn’t Kennedy’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists

      ‘At equal turns laugh-out-loud funny and searingly poignant, Rowley has created a truly unforgettable story of a son trying to understand his mother’ Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six

      ‘The Editor is an absolute triumph! Rowley is a master of creating characters you fall in love with, and never want to leave’ Julie Klam, author of The Stars In Our Eyes and You Had Me at Woof

      ‘The Editor will have you weeping tears of joy when it’s not quietly breaking your heart’ Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding

       For my parents

       In short, there’s simply not

       A more congenial spot

       For happily-ever-aftering than here

       In Camelot.

      —Camelot, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Praise for The Editor

       Dedication

       Epigraph

      The Quarantine: A Novel by James Smale

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Yesterday’s Gone, Yesterday’s Gone: November 1992

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Everything Turned Around: December 1992/1993

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       What Tomorrow Will Do: May 1994

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Chapter Thirty-Six

       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       Also by Steven Rowley

       About the Publisher

       THE QUARANTINE

       A Novel by James Smale

      The room was warm, too warm, Russell thought, to share with a dead body, but no one seemed concerned. Guests wore their coats cinched tight at the waists, as if taking them off would obligate them to stay. In the back of the room a giant