Carrying Albert Home电子书

Dedication

Contents

Introduction to the Journey

Part I: How the Journey Began

During which Elsie and Homer decide to take Albert home, the rooster signs on, Homer gets a glimmer of how much trouble he’s in, Elsie dances alone, and Homer and Albert rob a bank.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Part II: How Elsie Became a Radical

During which John Steinbeck has a cameo, Homer is the victim of mistaken identity, and Elsie and Albert fight a dubious battle.

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Part III: How Elsie Rode the Thunder Road, Homer Wrote a Poem, and Albert Transcended Reality

During which Elsie transports illegal booze, Homer meets a mad poet and his mistress, and we begin to understand Albert might be a symbol of something greater than himself.

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Part IV: How Homer Learned the Lessons of Baseball and Elsie the Nurse

During which Homer and Albert play baseball, Elsie becomes a nurse, and awful lessons are learned.

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Part V: How Elsie Came to Love the Beach and Homer and Albert Joined the Coast Guard

During which Elsie discovers where she truly belongs and Homer and Albert fight a terrible and bloody battle against smugglers and other riffraff of the sea.

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Part VI: How Albert Flew

During which Homer finds Georgia, Elsie trains as a pilot without a seat belt, and a disheartened Homer and a jubilant Albert take to the skies.

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Part VII: How Homer and Elsie Saved a Movie and Albert Played a Crocodile

During which Homer is again mistaken for someone else, Elsie sees her husband through starry eyes, and Albert, with artistic license, acts his little heart out as a celluloid croc.

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Part VIII: How Homer, Elsie, and Albert Endured a Hurricane, a Real One as Well as the One in Their Hearts

During which Ernest Hemingway has a cameo, Elsie is both enchanted and worried about nearly everything, including Albert, and Homer faces a hurricane’s wrath.

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Part IX: How Albert Was Finally Carried Home

During which Elsie must make an awful decision, Homer doesn’t know how to help her but does, Buddy Ebsen has a cameo, Albert is carried home, and the journey ends but, in a way, never does.

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Epilogue

A Further Postscript

Acknowledgments

Photographs Pertaining to the Journey

About the Author

Also by Homer Hickam

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher