دانلود رمان انگلیسی “ایمان در میان دوستان”

Like an old, frayed leather album of glossy Kodak photos, their faces flipped past her vision, turned over in her mind like words out of sequence – their laughter caught by the blink of a shutter – their sorrows remembered like some vague recollection of a movie that had been so mysteriously compelling, La Strada, perhaps; brilliant images standing out against the loss of full sentences. Has it really been so many years? Years that have passed like breaths, too necessary to notice? She hadn’t planned it, certainly never would have consciously planned it like this – seventeen years to the day since that seemingly fatal afternoon. She’d realized the coincidence as she sat listening to the banal drone of a dial tone, hoping Susie wouldn’t pick up. “Lucky day,” Vivian uttered after hearing Susie’s perky attempt at humor: Here’s the beep. You know what to do. Same old same old … So do it now and do it quickly. Vivian was relieved. She hadn’t wanted to take Susie by surprise and startle her into an abrupt refusal. She’d rely on low impact shock therapy; a few tidbits to whet the appetite but not too much information. “Hi, it’s me, a voice from the past.” She coughed, certain her nervousness would barely be noticeable. “It’s Vivian Forrester. My God, it’s been years. I’d love for us to get together, with the others, the rest of the feisty five, wouldn’t that be a blast? I’ve got the time and place. Call me, soon as you can.”