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Beauty (Record no. 1398)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780955647673
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.92
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Selbourne, Raphael
9 (RLIN) 362939
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Beauty
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Profile Books Ltd;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 336 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Beauty - in both name and appearance - is a twenty-year-old Bangladeshi, back in England having disgraced her family by fleeing an abusive arranged marriage. Forced onto the jobseeker's treadmill and under extreme domestic pressure, she cracks and runs away. Her encounters with officialdom, fellow claimants, and strangers in the city streets, complicated by the restrictions and comfort of her language and culture, place her at the mercy of such unlikely helpers as Mark, a friendly, Staffordshire bull terrier-breeding exoffender, and Peter, a middle-class underachiever on the rebound from a bitter relationship. With determination and good humour, Beauty moves ever closer to making her choice between family duty and personal freedom. All the while, however, her brothers are searching for her across town. Can she make the choice herself, before she's forced to? A sharply rendered, compassionate and challenging portrait of a fragmented, multicultural urban England.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
9 (RLIN) 362940
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Suppress in OPAC 0
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note Date last checked out
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Adult Fiction 12/07/2016 4 823.92 PKLC002876 09/10/2019 12/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   08/10/2019
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 03/05/2016   823.92 PKLC006180 03/05/2016 03/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale