'Eleanor?' Park - Ugly Nikki

593 Pages·2012·1.12 MB·English

For Forest, Jade, Haven and Jerry – and every-
one else in the back of the truck
ELEANOR & PARK
Rainbow Rowell
Contents
Cover
Dedication
Title Page
August 1986
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
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Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
He’d stopped trying to bring her back.
She only came back when she felt like it, in
dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.
Like, he’d be driving to work, and he’d see a
girl with red hair standing on the corner – and
he’d swear, for half a choking moment, that it
was her.
Then he’d see that the girl’s hair was more
blond than red.
And that she was holding a cigarette … And
wearing a Sex Pistols T-shirt.
Eleanor hated the Sex Pistols.
Eleanor …
Standing behind him until he turned his head.
Lying next to him just before he woke up. Mak-
ing everyone else seem drabber and flatter and
never good enough.
Eleanor ruining everything.
Eleanor, gone.
He’d stopped trying to bring her back.
AUGUST 1986
CHAPTER 1
Park
XTC was no good for drowning out the morons
at the back of the bus.
Park pressed his headphones into his ears.
Tomorrow he was going to bring Skinny
Puppy or the Misfits. Or maybe he’d make a spe-
cial bus tape with as much screaming and wailing
on it as possible.
He could get back to New Wave in Novem-
ber, after he got his driver’s license. His parents
had already said Park could have his mom’s Im-
pala, and he’d been saving up for a new tape
deck. Once he started driving to school, he could
listen to whatever he wanted or nothing at all,
andhe’d get to sleep in an extra twenty minutes.