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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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