Книга: Simon Lelic «Rupture»
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Серия: "-" 'Find what you were looking for, Inspector'? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for - she had found what she had been sent to discover - but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all. In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May, the young policewoman who is assigned the case, is expected to wrap up things quickly and without fuss. The incident is a tragedy that could not have been predicted and Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Soon, however, Lucia becomes preoccupied with the question no one else seems to want to ask: what drove a mild-mannered, diffident school teacher to commit such a despicable crime? Piecing together the testimonies of the teachers and children at the school, Lucia discovers an uglier, more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting. She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined. As the pressure to bury the case builds, she becomes determined to tell the truth about what happened, whatever the consequences. Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2010)
ISBN: 978-0-330-51398-2 Купить за 562 руб в My-shop |
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| Rupture (изд. 2010 г. ) | `Find what you were looking for, Inspector`? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming… — Macmillan Publishers, Подробнее... | бумажная книга |
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rupture — [ ryptyr ] n. f. • XIVe; lat. ruptura, de rumpere « rompre » → roture 1 ♦ Division, séparation brusque (d une chose solide) en deux ou plusieurs parties; son résultat. ⇒ brisement, fracture. Rupture d essieu. Mécan. Division d un solide en deux… … Encyclopédie Universelle
rupture — Rupture. s. f. v. Fracture. Action par laquelle une chose est rompue, estat d une chose rompuë. La rupture d une porte, d un coffre, d un cabinet &c. la rupture d un os, d une veine, d une artere, d une membrane. Rupture. signifie aussi, Hergne,… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Rupture — Rup ture (?; 135), n. [L. ruptura, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. F. rupture. See {Reave}, and cf. {Rout} a defeat.] 1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
rupture — [n1] break, split breach, burst, cleavage, cleft, crack, division, fissure, fracture, hernia, herniation, parting, rent, schism, tear; concepts 309,513 Ant. closing, closure rupture [n2] disagreement, dissolution altercation, breach, break, break … New thesaurus
rupture — [rup′chər] n. [LME ruptur < MFr rupture < L ruptura < ruptus, pp. of rumpere, to break < IE * reup < base * reu , to tear out, tear apart, break > ROB, RUB] 1. the act of breaking apart or bursting, or the state of being broken… … English World dictionary
Rupture — Rup ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rupturing}.] 1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel. [1913 Webster] 2. To produce a hernia in. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
