The Help / Прислуга. Книга для чтения на английском языке
Kitap hakkında
Предлагаем вниманию читателей первый роман американской писательницы Кэтрин Стокетт, вышедший в свет в 2009 году и сразу ставший бестселлером. В книге приводится полный неадаптированный текст романа с комментариями и словарем.
Diğer versiyonlar
A church baby we like to call it.
Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.
I look around the bedroom, sizing up the job. It’s big, with cream-colored carpet, a yellow king canopy bed, two fat yellow chairs. And it’s neat, with no clothes on the floor. The spread’s made up underneath her. The blanket on the chair’s folded nice. But I watch, I look. I can feel it. Something’s wrong. “When can we get to our first cooking lesson?” she asks. “Can we start today?”
you don’t hit on her children. White people like to do their own spanking.”
“Quit squirming, Mae Mobley,” Miss Fredericks snap, “or I’ll pinch you.”








