Résultats pour "Bank Holiday" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Bank Holiday is a story by Katherine Mansfield: A stout man with a pink face wears dingy white flannel trousers, a blue coat with a pink handkerchief showing, and a straw hat much too small for him, perched at the back of his head.

From the first puzzling sentence, Banker's Holiday—a euphemism for a federal bank closure—conjures the bleak and humorous world of Cincinnatus Stillman Fuller, a billionaire financier who suffers a breakdown in the middle of a Monday morning staff meeting.

"Bank Holiday" is a story by Katherine Mansfield: A stout man with a pink face wears dingy white flannel trousers, a blue coat with a pink handkerchief showing, and a straw hat much too small for him, perched at the back of his head.

All I want for Christmas is to see Boone Pierce again. Too bad he's been deployed overseas and we haven't spoken in years... Three years ago, I met a handsome Marine named Boone at my brother's wedding. We shared a stolen kiss, but that was all. As a single mom and widow, I just wasn't ready to open up my heart again. So we both went our separate ways... or so I thought. Boone has just moved from Texas to my small town of Fit Mountain, Wyoming, to start a mechanic shop. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. And the surprises don't stop there.