Heavenly date and other flirtations / Alexander McCall Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

Contributor:

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

200 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Heavenly date

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Canongate Books, 2003.

Summary:

Alexander McCall Smith's profile could not be higher at the moment: the Today show has featured him live twice, and author Amy Tan selected The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency as her book of the month. This delightful collection of short stories teems with more of the vivid characters and exotic settings that have become McCall Smith's trademark. Among other places, we visit Portugal, Australia, and, of course, the southern Africa McCall Smith's many fans know so well. Organized around the theme of the romantic encounter in all its varied forms, these hilarious stories are by turns surprising, enthralling, heartwarming, and, sometimes, just plain disastrous--but always universally recognizable. Full of the same irresistible imagination and delicious insight into the fascinating peculiarities of the human condition that have endeared The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency to thousands of readers, Heavenly Date is the perfect read for McCall Smith's rapidly growing audience.

Contents:

Wonderful date

Nice little date

Bulawayo

Far north

Intimate accounts

Calwarra

Fat date

Maternal influence

Heavenly date.

Notes:

First published in the UK in 1995 as: Heavenly date and other stories.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Related Work:

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- Heavenly date and other stories.

ISBN:

1841954667

OCLC:

52755435