The Crash of Hennington
Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel ‘More Than This’.Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the award-winning author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, ‘A Monster Calls’ and and new novel ‘More Than This’.Welcome to the seaside metropolis of Hennington, where a mysterious herd of rhinoceros has wandered city streets for so long it’s become a civic feature, where the current mayor first met her husband on a nude beach, and where Jon Noth has returned after four decades to reclaim a lost love.Unfortunately for him, that lost love is Cora Larsson, long-time mayor of Hennington, happily (and flexibly) married – and still not interested …
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THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
Patrick Ness
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Published by Flamingo 2003
First published in Great Britain by Flamingo 2003
Copyright © Patrick Ness 2003
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Ebook Edition © FEBRUARY 2011 ISBN: 9780007390342 Version: 2017-01-03
‘Souls have complexions, too: what will suit one will not suit another.’
GEORGE ELIOT Middlemarch
For Marc Nowell
And in memory of my remarkable great aunt, Ingeborg Utheim 1915–1999
Contents
Part I. Welcome to Hennington.
6. The Mayor’s Office and its Discontents.
16. Why Archie Banyon Feels the Way He Does About Women.
17. ‘The Tale of Rufus and Rhonda'.
20. In the Hours Before Morning.
Part II. There Are No Ends, Only Changes.
23. Comfort for the Uncomfortable.
27. ‘Cleave’ Has Two Meanings.
30. It Always Comes Out Somewhere.
35. The Story of Cora, Jon, and Albert, as told to Eugene by Jon.
36. Max and Talon Discuss the Ramifications of the Weight of Cultural Pressures and Also Buy a Dog.
37. What Happened Between Luther and Archie.
39. The Frustrating Aspects of Prophecy.
Part III. All Bets May or May Not Be Final.
43. Max Has The Same Conversation.
44. The Crash and The Injured Calf.
47. In Which Much News Is Confirmed.
48. Jarvis’ Sermon About the Brandon Beach Massacre.
49. An Unexpected Intransigence.
50. A Tentatively Happy Bleakness.
54. Max and Talon and The Emu.
55. Sometimes It’s Just Sorrow.
58. A Most Delicious Proposal.
63. The Reasons Why We Do Things.
67. Old(er) Man’s (and Woman’s) Fancy.
72. The Swinging Gates of Opportunity.
73. A Rush and a Push and the Day is Ours.
79. The Inevitable Disappointment By Those We Love.
89. The Schism, Arriving on Schedule.
91. An Invisible Threat, Real Nonetheless.
92. Not the Highest Bid, but the Earliest.
98. The Faces in the Distance.
99. Thrust, Parry, Feint, Touch.
100. The Message to the Light Wind.
108. A Lover’s Hand, A Lover’s Breath.
115. To The Faithful Departing.
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