Нет, не пугайтесь, пожалуйста! Рассылка, к счастью для всех нас, не сменила ориентацию с английского на итальянский. Просто L'Americanina - это новелла, которую я хочу предложить вашему вниманию. Она была опубликована на сайте литературного журнала All-Story (его основатель Френсис Форд Коппола, а кто не знает этого имени - все в сад ;) Это Love story отпрыска старинного итальянского рода и дочери американских преррий. Хотя, там больше Story, чем love.
L'Americanina by Martha McPhee
A fast car on a wide American highway. A free soul from an exotic land of deserts with blood-red canyons and buttes and mesas that scrape the sky, of strip towns with drive-thru-just-about-everything, seedy hotels and lonely phone booths on long lonely roads.
A drive-in movie theatre, jazz and alligators in the bayous, the heaving and sighing of semitrailers lined up and sparkling in the night. New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas. A wide-aisled supermarket flooded with choice and every little surprise and curiosity you could find therein. McDonald's, fried chicken, apple pie-simple things he had never tried. Cornfields and wheat fields and soy, migrating loess hills and fields with cows and chickens rolling into more fields with barns and silos and grain elevators and wide-open views the size of Texas.
She was all of this for him. Twenty-two years old with a gap between her teeth and blond hair, blue eyes, and the longest, darkest lashes he had ever seen. She was abundance and risk and experimentation-she grew up on a commune, no future, no past-and she had fallen sweetly, deeply, permanently for him.
Her name was Beth. Ordinary American name. He pronounced it Bet with his Italian accent that didn't know that foreign h-Bet, as in to gamble everything-transforming the name (and her) into something different entirely, extraordinary even. Rising from the depths of her she was the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building shooting into the sky like hope. She was America.
Продолжение на
http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=138  
Butte (blood-red canyons and buttes) - одинокий холм
Scrape (scrape the sky) - тереться
Strip (strip towns) - узкая полоса
Seedy (seedy hotels) - поношенный, потрепанный
Bay (alligators in the bayous) - залив, бухта
Spark( sparkling in the night) - искриться, вспыхивать
Flood (supermarket flooded with choice) - наводнять, переполнять
Barn (fields with barns) - коровник, конюшня
Gap (gap between her teeth) - брешь, пробел
Abundance (She was abundance) - изобилие, богатство
Depth (Rising from the depths of her) - глубина
Surprise
В дополнение к прошлому выпуску рассылки, предлагаю вам прочитать истории двух очень популярных существ в Галактике - Человека-Паука из одноименного фильма и Jar Jar Binks'а из "звездной" саги.
Jar-Jar the terrible truth Everyone hates Jar Jar Binks. We here at Brunching hate him as much as anyone else. Perhaps more so. But knowing that George Lucas is a brilliant visionary who has created a story filled with layers upon layers upon layers, we decided to take a closer look at this hated Gungan. We came up with a shattering truth…
http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-jarjartruth.html
Spider-Man Spider-Man brings to the screen the story of Spider-Man. He's a comic book superhero. You may have heard of him. Truth be told, Spider-Man is probably the most successful comic book superhero yet to make the leap onto the big screen, and this is the film fans have been waiting a very long time to see. And unlike some superhero films I could name, this one doesn't suck...
http://www.brunching.com/selfmade/spiderman.html  
P.S.
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http://www.lang.ru/know/shops/ozon_video.asp
Друзья мои, если вы хотите чтобы эта рассылка становилась интересней, увлекательней, информативней, то можете запросто присылать свои приветы, предложения, замечания и пожелания. Отдельный привет тем подписчикам, кто так и поступает :)