Man and Boy. Tony Parsons

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Название Man and Boy
Автор произведения Tony Parsons
Жанр Зарубежный юмор
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isbn 9780007362899



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      MAN AND BOY

      Tony Parsons

       For my mother

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Part One: Skylarking

       The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

       Chapter One

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Part Two: The Ding-Dong Man

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Part Three: Guess What?

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Chapter Thirty-Six

       Chapter Thirty-Seven

       Chapter Thirty-Eight

       Chapter Thirty-Nine

       Chapter Forty

       About the Author

       Praise

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

part one: skylarking

       The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

       It’s a boy, it’s a boy!

      It’s a little boy.

      I look at this baby – as bald, wrinkled and scrunched up as an old man – and something chemical happens inside me.

      It – I mean he – looks like the most beautiful baby in the history of the world. Is it – he – really the most beautiful baby in the history of the world? Or is that just my biological programming kicking in? Does everyone feel this way? Even people with plain babies? Is our baby really so beautiful?

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