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001			on1141021189
003			OCoLC
005			20210120094702.0
008			200213t20202019nyua e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019056942
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020			_a9780593315750 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0593315758 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1141021189 _z(OCoLC)1228909390 _z(OCoLC)1228909580
042			_apcc
092			_aMCCALL S _bALEXANDE
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _eauthor. _94750
240	1	0	_aShort stories. _kSelections
245	1	0	_aPianos and flowers : _bbrief encounters of the romantic kind / _cAlexander McCall Smith.
250			_aFirst United States edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2019
300			_aix, 179 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh in 2019"--Title page verso.
520			_a"In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must it have been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbors caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us. There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realize that these photographs speak volumes"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_tPianos and flowers -- _tI'd cry buckets -- _tSphinx -- _tMaternal designs -- _tThe dwarf tale-teller of the Romanian Rom -- _tDuty -- _tIron jelloids -- _tStudents -- _tZeugma -- _tUrchins -- _tSt. John's wort -- _tBlackmail -- _tPogo sticks and man with bicycle -- _tLa plage.
650		0	_aAntiquities _xEgyptian _vFiction.
651		0	_aLondon (England) _vFiction. _94168
650		0	_aLove _vFiction. _913173
655		7	_aShort stories. _2lcgft _91945
655		7	_aRomance fiction. _2lcgft _9772
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tPianos and flowers.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tI'd cry buckets.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tSphinx.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tMaternal designs.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tDwarf tale-teller of the Romanian Rom.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tDuty.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tIron jelloids.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tStudents.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tZeugma.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tUrchins.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tSt. John's wort.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tBlackmail.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tPogo sticks and man with bicycle.
700	1		_iContainer of (work) : _aMcCall Smith, Alexander, _d1948- _tPlage.
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