TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Bernières,Louis
TI  - Notwithstanding: stories from an English village 
T2  - Vintage international
SN  - 9781101969878
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Villages
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - National characteristics, British
KW  - Short stories, English
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "A Vintage International Original" -- title page verso; 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
N2  - "Comic, wistfully nostalgic stories about English village life, from the author of Corelli's Mandolin"--; 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
ER  -