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Meeting the English (Record no. 664)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780330535281
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.92
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Clanchy, Kate
9 (RLIN) 360681
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Meeting the English
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pan Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 310 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE Literary Giant seeks young man to push bathchair. Own room in Hampstead, all found, exciting cultural milieu. Modest wage. Ideal 'gap year' opportunity. Apply Prys Box 4224XXC. 'It's only England,' said Mr Fox, 'just a few hours on the train. You can always come home.' 'Ah've never been though,' said Struan, 'never been South.' 'Then you should,' said Mr Fox, 'you really should.' So it is that Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town of Cuik, and arrives in London in the freakish fine summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for Phillip, dumbfounded and paralysed by a massive stroke, because, though two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle round Phillip's large house, they are each too busy with their peculiar obsessions to do it themselves. As the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property prices, wild swimming, and overwhelming passions. For everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer. This is a bright book about dark subjects: a tale about kindness and its limits, told with love. Spiked with witty dialogue, and jostling with gleeful, zesty characters, it is a glorious debut novel from an acclaimed writer of poetry, non-fiction, and short stories.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
9 (RLIN) 360682
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Adult Fiction 19/08/2016 1 823.92 PKLC002579 14/09/2019 19/08/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17   07/09/2019
Withdrawn   Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 04/05/2016   823.92 PKLC004318 04/05/2016 04/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 For Sale