A Summer’s Reading

A Summer’s Reading

by Bernard Malamud

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Chapter 1

George Stoyonovich was a neighborhood boy who had quit high school on an impulse when he was sixteen, run out of patience, and though he was ashamed every time he went looking for a job, when people asked him if he had finished and he had to say no, he never went back to school.  This summer was a hard time for jobs and he had none.  Having so much time on his hands, George thought of going to summer school, but the kids in his classes would be too young.  He also considered registering in a night high school, only he didn’t like the idea of the teachers always telling him what to do.  He felt they had not respected him.  The result was he stayed off the streets and in his room most of the day.  He was close to twenty and had needs with the neightborhood girls, but no money to spend, and he couldn’t get more than an occasional few cents because his father was poor, and his sister Sophie, who resembled George, a tall bony girl of twenty-three, earned very little and what she had she kept for herself.  Their mother was dead, and Sophie had to take care of the house.