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VG in Very Good jacket. Size: 24 cm.; Dust jacket condition: Very Good. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. 1st edition Gathering speed as it moves out of the Fourteenth Street station, the train soon is hurtling through the dark tunnel that threads its way beneath the streets of New York City. Inside a grimy, graffiti-covered subway car some twenty women and men sit, close yet separated from one another, shielded from contact not just by the padding of their heavy winter clothing but by the psychological barriers they long ago learned to erect as they seek a few feet of space they can call their own, at least for as long as they occupy it. Some are reading? a book, a magazine, a newspaper; one man Jozes. Two women, friends who have been out shopping, are talking animatedly, reliving the day's activities, sharing plans for the Christmas holiday just three days ahead. A husband and wife sit wrapped in sullen silence, the aftermath of a quarrel. The rest just sit, eyes fixed and unseeing, bodies swaying and rolling to the rhythm of the train as it hurries on its way to the next stop. A short, sharp sound rises above the familiar subway noises, and another. Heads come up, eyes become alert, glances meet inquiringly. For the first time, people actually see each other. My God, could it be? Gunshots? In the subway? Terror brings them together as they look about wildly, mutely seeking reassurance that their ears have deceived them. Then in quick succes-.45 311 pages.
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