The Case of the Missing Books (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
336
Utgivningsdatum
2006-02-01
Förlag
HarperPerennial
Volymtitel
The Case of the Missing Books
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 22 mm
Vikt
304 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780007206995

The Case of the Missing Books

The Mobile Library

av Ian Sansom
(2 röster)
Häftad,  Engelska, 2006-02-01
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Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literatures most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road. Israel is an intelligent, shy, passionate, sensitive sort of soul: hes Jewish; hes a vegetarian; he could maybe do with losing a little weight. And hes just arrived in Ireland to take up his first post as a librarian. But the librarys been shut down and Israel ends up stranded on the North Antrim coast driving an old mobile library. Theres nice scenery, but 15,000 fewer books than there should be. Who on earth steals that many books? How? When would they have time to read them all? And is there anywhere in this godforsaken place where he can get a proper cappuccino and a decent newspaper? Israel wants answers
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REVIEWS FOR RING ROAD: A Tristram Shandy for our times The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny. I laughed more times than I can remember over a novel for years Ring Road is well-observed and endlessly inventive, with all the messiness of a real place. Sansoms deadpan voice throws up jokes on every page. Observer Calls to mind two other outstanding novels: Tristram Shandyand Joseph Hellers Catch-22 One of those rare books that, once picked up, proves very difficult to put down. The Irish Independent Wonderfully vivid, easy, natural, funny and moving. Oliver Sacks A wonderfully comic novel. Daily Mail It reminds me most of Jerome K. Jerome Mellow, intelligent and very funny, a perfect antidote for melancholy. Michael Moorcock, Guardian There is something fearless in the gaze Sansom turns on banality, and this novel is, in the end, a surprisingly gripping feat of coming to terms with what ordinary life is like. TLS

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Ian Sansom reviews regularly for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. His first book, The Truth About Babies, was published by Granta in 2002, and his second, Ring Road, by Fourth Estate in 2004.

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