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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like a magician she plucks them from the quietest of corners: from Wimbledon gardens and cold churches, from London buses and industrial backstreets. A mother watching her children on the beach dreams of a long-lost lover, an abandoned army wife sees a ghost at a moorland gate, a translator adrift in Geneva is haunted by the unspeakable manifestation of her own fears, and a colonial servant wreaks a delicious revenge on her monstrous masters. Gardam's cast is wide and wonderful, saints and mystics, trollops and curmudgeons, yearning mothers and lost children, beloved figures such as Old Filth and less familiar - but equally unforgettable - characters like Signor Settimo, the sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie Ironside, the ferocious matron he seduces. With a mischievous ear for dialogue, a glittering eye for detail and a capacious understanding of the vagaries of the human heart, Jane Gardam's stories will captivate, sadden and delight. A treasure trove of short stories from the beloved author of the Old Filth trilogy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780349140384
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Book Description Condition: New. A treasure trove of short stories from the beloved author of the Old Filth trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 372. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780349140384
Book Description Condition: New. A treasure trove of short stories from the beloved author of the Old Filth trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 372. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780349140384