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Mama I Love You

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Информация:: Эта семья немногим отличается от любой другой. Разве что каждый понимает друг друга почти с полуслова, хоть родители и не могут ужиться в одной стране. Девятилетняя девочка, которая своему имени предпочитает семейное прозвище Сверкунчик, действительно любит свою Маму Девочку. И Папу Мальчика, и даже брата Пита Боливия Сельское Хозяйство. Но их семья уже целый год живет на разных континентах: мама покоряет театральные подмостки Нью-Йорка, а папа - залы парижских консерваторий. Родители называют это "развод" и никак не могут объяснить ребенку, что же значит это слово. Сверкунчику придется самой разбираться в непонятном языке и странном мире взрослых.

Reader's Note
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William Saroyan, author of The Human Comedy, is back again, with his inimitable, slightly out-of-this-universe, warm and funny and easygoing view of the pleasures and treasures of life and its beautiful people. This time he tells about a little girl who is wonderfully ten years old.

Twink was the little girl's name. She became a real actress, a star with her name in lights. But she would have preferred to be a baseball pitcher, for the New York Giants. And still more, she wanted her composer father and her actress mother to stop being divorced. Then her father and brother would come back from Paris and never leave again. But one can't have everything, so Twink became a famous little girl instead.

When Twink's mother decided one night to go to New York instead of to a party in Los Angeles, where they lived, she took Twink along. It was lucky she did, for it was because of Twink that everything began to happen. First, Twink was offered a part by the great Broadway producer Mike McClatchey. Then, Mike and the author, Emerson Tully, decided that mother and daughter went so well together that Emerson would rewrite his play and have them both in it. And because Twink went for a walk in the hotel corridor instead of taking her nap, she met Kate Cranshaw, the reigning lady of the American stage, who decided to coach Twink and her mother in acting.

And Twink gave Gladys Dubarry such good advice about love and marriage that Mike McClatchey got the financial backing he needed to put on the play. Who was Gladys Dubarry? Just one of the world's richest unmarried girls over thirty, that's all.

Twink sees with the free eyes of childhood, half in fantasies and dreams, half in reality, without the barriers adults put between. The result is fresh and bursting with life and good humor. A theater audition, the Dodgers beating the Giants, a trip to Coney Island in a limousine, the play's marvelous opening night, the funny way pigeons walk, getting lost in the Automat, a little girl's love for her mama and papa and brother - they are all mixed up together in a magical way which is touching and sweet (hilarious, too)

Children know these things, but only a few gifted adults can ever recapture them. In Mama I Love You, William Saroyan has done just that.

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1. Good-by, Macaroni Lane — 1
2. Star of Ireland — 17
3. Hello, Pierre — 32
4. Early One Morning — 57
5. Twosies — 77
6. The Dragnet for the Tea Drinker — 97
7. New York, New York — 118
8. The Crazy Hummingbird of Central Park — 148
9. Oh Pigeons, Oh People, Oh Little Boy — 161
10. The Hunger Rush at the Automat — 184
11. A Loser in the Living Room, a Winner on TV — 222
12. Strawberries and Cream, Lamb Chops and Water Cress — 248
13. All About a Little Girl — 269
14. The Lions and Tigers on the Front Lawn — 289
15. A Quiet Chat with Dr. Sprang. A Quiet Chat with Dr. Sprang — 322
16. Man, What You Doing in Paris, Boy? — 336
17. In This Corner Gladys Dubarry — 374
18. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press — 437
19. The New Play — 456
20. Stage Fright — 480
21. Gladys Dubarry, Girl Bride — 506
22. Memories of California, Fun at Coney Island — 550
23. Poor Old Marriage — 590
24. Players, to Work — 632
25. The Preacher in the Pulpit, the Pitcher in the Box — 668
26. Money — 700
27. Oh You Philadelphia — 757
28. Work and Work, and Worry and Wait — 789
29. A Bouncing Ball in Boston — 819
30. The Great Game — 870
31. It's a Hit, It's a Flop, It's a Hit, and Who Cares? — 908

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1	Mama I Love You by William Saroyan I wrote this story for Lucy Saroyan herself – with love. 1. Good-by, Macaroni Lane Mama girl came out of the bath with just the stuff on to hide a big girl a little and she said, "What time is it now?" "Eight," I said. "Ten minutes to?" "No, just eight." "Which clock?" "All clocks. It's eight and you're late, but have you ever been on time?".
2	"I wasn't late when I had you." "I was the one who wasn't late. You were just there." "I know all about it," Mama Girl said, "and take my word for it, I was the one who wasn't late." "Well, then, neither was I." That's my birth, when Mama Girl and I first met and began to be friends. We've been friends ever since, but we have at least one big fight every day.
3	We always make up, though. We live in the same place and go around together, except when it's something for big girls only, and then Mama Girl goes and I stay, sometimes with a sitter, sometimes with Mother Viola, who is the mother of eleven grown-up boys and girls and comes to our house on weekends to cook and clean and look at TV.
4	I was waiting for Mama Girl in her bedroom to watch her dress, because she knows how. She is the best dresser I ever saw. Mama Girl is pink all over, she has red hair, and she knows all about dressing. First you take a bath in a tub, then you put powder all over, then you make up, and then you get dressed.
5	When you've done everything, you look like a big girl. I could do it myself, but I'm still straight up and down everywhere, and very hard instead of soft. I weigh sixty pounds and Mama Girl weighs a hundred and twenty. Mama Girl is thirty-three, but she gets angry if I say so. "I'm twenty-two, and you know it," she says.
6	"If you're twenty-two," I say, "then I'm not born yet, because you were twenty-four then I was born. You said so yourself." "I was lying," Mama Girl says. "I didn't want to tell you I was thirteen when I had you, that's all." "That's a big fat one," I say, and Mama Girl says, "You've seen a lot of women who are thirty-three – well, do I look like them?".
7	Well, of course she doesn't. She doesn't look like anybody else, and she herself is different every week, after she gets back from the beauty parlor. Her hair's a different color every time, and her fingernails have a different polish. Mama Girl has more kinds of lipstick and powder and other stuff like that than any other woman in the world.
8	Mama Girl lighted a Parliament and sat on her bed with the red velvet spread on it. She looked at me and smiled and inhaled and exhaled, and then just sat there. "You better hurry," I said. "No, I'm an hour late already. It'll take me half an hour to drive there, so I might as well take my time and be real late instead of a little." "O.K.".
9	"What's Mother Viola cooked for your supper?" "She's not here." "Where is she?" "I don't know. She hasn't come yet." "Oh, no!" Mama Girl said. "She can't do that! She knows I'm counting on her. I told her to be sure and be here at seven sharp. I thought she came in while I was in the bath." "She didn't.".
10	"Well, who was that you were talking to?" "Deb." "Mrs. Schlomb's girl?" "Deborah Schlomb." "Since when do you two speak together like adults?" "Do we speak like adults?" "Yes. I thought you were speaking to Mother Viola. Now, I've got to find out what's the matter. Why isn't she here?".
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