By Jerry Yulsman
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Elleander Morning is an alternate heritage during which international conflict II by no means occurred. within the book's commencing pages, Adolf Hitler is sitting in a café in Vienna in 1913 while he's assassinated by way of an American lady, Elleander Morning. the radical gained a number of awards, together with the 1986 Ditmar Award for most sensible foreign fiction and the technology Fiction membership Deutschland's Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
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It all felt as if seemed so absurd. She'd have to get orga- she were going through her thirty's trauma four years after the fact. ' It was a Reader's Digest article. I mean really! " the genes," said her mother sourly. " "Okay, I'm hooked," Lesley said, thinking how typical it was of her mother to distill a complex reahty into a few concentrated drops of predestination. This time it was genetic, usually it was astrological. "Come on. " . " Lesley tion knew the game, the disclaimers indicated a fragmenta- bomb was about to be dropped.
She poured herself a cognac and found the books her father had spoken of. ITie Intimate Diary of a London Gentleman was a volume of 215 pages bound traditionally in moroccan leather, its cover embossed in gold leaf and its paper of a quahty rarely seen these days. The Time-Life History of the Second World War consisted of two large-format volumes encased in a sUpcase that was illustrated with photographs of a few dozen colorful flags. 19 42 She laid the large ing through it 8 3 volumes aside and opened the Diary, thumb- tentatively before turning to the title page.
Well, that's not so bad," said her mother. Lesley looked up sharply. " "I'm not yelling," said Lesley, her voice tight, the three short words cUpped and defined. "You're really marvelous. Mother! " Lesley felt a pang of guilt. She was, she realized, using her mother for a punching bag. "I have a friend at Bendel's, maybe he can find something for you in the advertising department. Or, if you'd like, you can come to "I learned it "Well, you're in work at the shop. " tried unsuccessfully to visualize herself selling lingerie at her mother's shop on Lexington Avenue.