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Cold Snap (Record no. 1660)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781447258520
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.91
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name King, Francis
9 (RLIN) 363646
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Cold Snap
Statement of responsibility, etc. King, Francis
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pan Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 248 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note From 18
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. For innumerable people in Great Britain, the second half of the forties was a period of return to homes and former occupations after the volcanic dislocations of the war. Michael, having repeatedly risked his life as an Air Force pilot, is now back in his comfortable and privileged existence as a fellow of a major Oxford college. After the excitements of her years in SOE, the Special Operations Executive, his cousin Christine is attempting to fulfil her tutor's high expectations of her as a classical scholar of note. For the German prisoners crowded together in a camp on the outskirts of the town there have been no such returns. But at least the previously sever edict against any sort of fraternisation has been in some measures relaxed. So it is that a chance conversation that Michael initiates with a solitary prisoner, Thomas, precipitates a friendship between the fastidious don and a little group of prisoners, whom he eventually introduces to Christine. Soon Michael has become profoundly attached to Klaus, a previously robust East Prussian hideously wounded before his capture, who remains unaware of the dormant passion that he has aroused. Christine starts a tumultuous affair with Thomas, a would-be composer. Inevitably the relationship is a difficult one in a world in which many of the victors oppose relationships of any kind with representatives of the hated enemy. King's descriptions of the grimness of the lives of Germans, labouring outdoors in the bitter old, and of the conflict between the natural humanity of the British and their desire for reparations, are etched with memorable sharpness.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
9 (RLIN) 363647
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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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
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 12/07/2016   823.91 PKLC001430 09/09/2016 12/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Book Bazaar
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 30/04/2016   823.91 PKLC001476 30/04/2016 30/04/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale