The Uncommon Reader
by Bennett, Alan
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0312427646
- ISBN 13
- 9780312427641
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About This Item
Picador USA, 2008. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 128 pages. 7.00x4.75x0.50 inches.
Synopsis
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.
Reviews
On Jul 2 2015, a reader said:
Funny, charming and just totally delightful!
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- Bookseller
- Revaluation Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1-0312427646
- Title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Author
- Bennett, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0312427646
- ISBN 13
- 9780312427641
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
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