《The stone gods 》作者：- Jeanette Winterson 【EPUB】

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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF CANADA Copyright ?? 2007 Jeanette Winterson All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of thisbook may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means inclucling information storage and retrieval systems withoutpermission in writing from the publisher except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages ina review. Pu blished in 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf Canada a division of Random House of CanadaLimited and simultaneously in the United States of America by Harcourt Books. First publishedin Great Britain in 2007 by Hamish Hamilton a division of Penguin Books Ltd. London.Distributed by Random House of Canada LirnitedToronto. Knopf Canada and colophon are trademarks. www.randomhouse.ca Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Winterson Jeanette 1959 The stone gods / Jeanette Winterson. ISBN 978-0-307-39722-5 I. Title. PR6073.I558S762008a 823.914 C2007-907667-X First Edition Text set in Monotype Bembo Printed and bound in the United States of America 246897531 This book is to my oldest friends - Philippa Brewster Vicky Licorish Henri Llewelyn DaviesMona Howard Peggy Reynolds Beeban Kidron Phillippa Giles and Ruth Rendell. And to AliSmith who came later and to Deborah Warner always. Contents Planet Blue.5 Easter Island.102 Post-3 War124 Wreck City.156 Acknowledgements.217 Planet Blue This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size tread-on-me tiny or blurred-out-of-focus huge. There are leavesthat have grown as big as cities and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the whitesand there are long-toed clawprints deep as nightmares and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish. Trees like skyscrapers and housing as many. Grass the heightof hedges nuts the swell of pumpkins. Sardines that would take two men to land them. Eggspale-blue-shelled each the weight of a breaking universe. And underneath mushrooms soft and small as a mouse ear. A crack like a cut and inside amillion million microbes wondering what to do next. Spores that wait for the wind and neverlook back. Moss that is concentrating on being green. A man pushes forward with a microphone - And is there oxygen Yes there is. And freshwater Abundant. And