Corduroy Mansions - Rilegato

McCall Smith, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0307379086 ISBN 13: 9780307379085

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 2010

Riassunto

While a middle-aged wine merchant tries to emancipate his reluctant adult son from their crumbling Pimlico home, a hated Parliament member incites the disgust of his biography-writing mother and long-suffering literary agent girlfriend.

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Recensione:

"[McCall Smith] returns with a new cast of characters to love . . . fans will be grateful that the series has just begun. A-"
—Entertainment Weekly

"Filled with charming eccentrics . . . McCall Smith, a master of weaving the many strands of his complex stories together, does so here with supreme virtuosity."
—The Washington Post

The indefatigable Scotsman's latest exercise in grace and good manners . . . McCall Smith is the P.G. Wodehouse of our time, and we should be grateful for his prolificacy."
—Richmond Times-Dispatch

"As ever, McCall Smith is droll, philosophical, full of original insights, and above all, entertaining."
—Bookreporter

Praise from the United Kingdom
 
“Quirky and original . . . Told with warmth, wit and intelligence, and McCall Smith’s cast of characters are beautifully observed. It’s a page-turner with many happy endings. Perfect.”
—Daily Express
 
“The author’s gentle humor and playful teasing-out of moral dilemmas great and small are there in abundance.”
—The Scotsman
 
“[Full] of warmth and wisdom and easy, accomplished writing that begs for a comfy chair.”
—The Times (London)
 
“The seriousness is always sugar-dusted in McCall Smith’s delight in the ridiculous and his perfectly paced humour.”
—The Daily Telegraph

L'autore:

Alexander McCall Smith is also the author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He lives in Scotland.

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307379086
• ISBN 13: 9780307379085
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 368