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Notwithstanding : stories from an English village / Louis de Bernières.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Vintage internationalPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016Description: 372 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781101969878
  • 1101969873
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Archie and the birds -- Obadiah Oak, Mrs. Griffiths and the carol singers -- Archie and the woman -- The Girt Pike -- Mrs. Griffith' part-time job -- The auspicious meeting of the first two members of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet -- Mrs. Mac -- Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the fish -- All my everlasting love -- The Devil and Bessie Mauderfield -- The auspicious meeting of the third member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the first two -- Footprint in the snow -- The happy death of the General -- Rabbit -- This beautiful house -- Talking to George -- The auspicious meeting of the first member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the fourth -- Silly bugger (1) -- Silly bugger (2) -- Horatio and all that -- The broken heart -- The death of Miss Agatha Feakes -- Afterword.
Summary: "Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: 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 almost fit in.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction De Berni Louis Available 33111008560183
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 Bernières 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.

"A Vintage International Original" -- title page verso.

"Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"-- Provided by publisher.

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 almost fit in.

Archie and the birds -- Obadiah Oak, Mrs. Griffiths and the carol singers -- Archie and the woman -- The Girt Pike -- Mrs. Griffith' part-time job -- The auspicious meeting of the first two members of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet -- Mrs. Mac -- Colonel Barkwell, Troodos and the fish -- All my everlasting love -- The Devil and Bessie Mauderfield -- The auspicious meeting of the third member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the first two -- Footprint in the snow -- The happy death of the General -- Rabbit -- This beautiful house -- Talking to George -- The auspicious meeting of the first member of the famous Notwithstanding Wind Quartet with the fourth -- Silly bugger (1) -- Silly bugger (2) -- Horatio and all that -- The broken heart -- The death of Miss Agatha Feakes -- Afterword.

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