Corduroy mansions
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
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General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Summary, etc.: | Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London's vibrant Pimlico neighborhood and the home turf of a captivating collection of quirky and altogether McCall-Smithian characters. There's the middle-aged wine merchant William, who's trying to convince his reluctant twenty-four-year-old son, Eddie, to leave the nest; and Marcia, the boutique caterer who has her sights set on William. There's also the (justifiably) much-loathed Member of Parliament Oedipus Snark; his mother, Berthea, who's writing his biography and hating every minute of it; and his long-suffering girlfriend, Barbara, a literary agent who would like to be his wife (but, then, she'd like to be almost anyone's wife). There's the vitamin evangelist, the psychoanalyst, the art student with a puzzling boyfriend and Freddie de la Hay, the Pimlico terrier who insists on wearing a seat belt and is almost certainly the only avowed vegetarian canine in London. |
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Subject: | Neighborhoods England London Fiction Pimlico (London, England) Fiction |
Genre: | Humorous stories, English. Electronic books. |
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