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The purple swamp hen and other stories / Penelope Lively.
Van Pelt Library PR6062.I89 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lively, Penelope, 1933- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Fig Tree, 2016.
- Summary:
- A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect understanding.
- Contents:
- The purple swamp hen
- Abroad
- The row
- Who do you think you were?
- Old as the hills
- A biography
- The weekend
- Licence to kill
- Mrs Bennet
- Lorna and Tom
- Point of view
- DIY
- The bridge
- Theory of mind
- The third wife.
- ISBN:
- 9780241281147
- 0241281148
- OCLC:
- 950929133
- Publisher Number:
- 99970127090
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