| Notwithstanding Contributor(s): de Bernieres, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1101969873 ISBN-13: 9781101969878 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| LCCN: 2016019922 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics--a retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist living with the ghost of her husband, and a dog named Archibald Scott-Moncrieff--almost fit in. In this delightfully evocative collection of stories, in which a young couple falls in and out of love by letter alone, an eleven-year-old boy battles a monstrous fish, and a man of the cloth has a premonition of death, Louis de Berni res conjures up a rural idyll long since forgotten. Funny, bittersweet, and deeply felt, Notwithstanding is the bestselling author of Corelli's Mandolin at his most enchanting. |