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The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories (Record no. 1985)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780571304509
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.91
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kersh, Gerald
9 (RLIN) 364699
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Faber & Faber;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 172 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind ...the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father...'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. "The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board' ...is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre." (Times Literary Supplement (1944)).
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Short stories
9 (RLIN) 364700
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
9 (RLIN) 364701
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Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi In Store 12/07/2016   823.91 PKLC003619 09/09/2016 12/07/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 Book Bazaar
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore In Store 14/05/2016   823.91 PKLC015148 14/05/2016 14/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17