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''The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read'' is a short story collection by British writer Susan Hill published in 2003 by Chatto & Windus (hardback) and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books.〔http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/susan-hill/boy-who-taught-beekeeper-to-read.htm〕 It "received long and favourable reviews in ''The Guardian'' (Hermione Lee), ''The Spectator'' (Francis King), ''The Sunday Times'' (Penelope Lively) and ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (Mark Cries).〔http://www.susan-hill.com/pages/books/the_books/the_boy_who_taught_the_beekeeper_to_read.asp〕 ==Stories== It contains nine stories :- *"The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read": a schoolboy befriends the beekeeper at his aunt's country house and begins teaching him to read, but will the closeness last... *"Father, Father": two sisters live with their recently widowed father and try to help him move on from his grief, but when he does they find themselves unable to cope... *"Need": in a travelling circus troupe Biddy is dogged by Little Midge, the unnerving whistler as she visits her closest friend Rosa the fortune-teller one last time... *"The Punishment": Mick's brother Charlie dies as a result of an accident whilst being punished in a Catholic School. Mick and his friends take seemingly dreadful revenge on God and the Church, but things do not go as they expect... *"Moving Messages": two women once close friends meet after 34 years apart... *"Sand": after their mother's funeral, two sisters recall of the only act of kindness they had ever seen from her when she helped a small boy with sand in his eyes... *"Elizabeth": a mother warns her daughter against remaining at home when she grows up, which will end in a life of drudgery like herself, but instead to escape and see the world... *"The Brooch": Rima's uncle is blind but few people realise this as with his dog and fixed routine he works as a commercial traveller selling hosiery in the city where he knows every customer and remembers every order. But then he buys Rosa a gift... *"Antonyin's": an Englishman is posted to Vldansk, a bleak Eastern European town; he struggles with the food until he discovers Antonyin's, a cafe serving perfect food. But then he is targeted by a determined woman who sees marriage to him as an escape to the West... 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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