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Washington Square Press, 2002. Ex-Library. Trade Paperback. Very Good. GREAT BOOK! MILD WEAR & A COUPLE SPINE CREASES ON LAMINATED COVER. A FEW LIBRARY STAMPS, LIGHTLY AGED, NO MARKING IN TEXT. Description: In this brilliantly witty satire -- a bestseller in the UK -- a prestigious British museum launches an ambitious new exhibit...which quickly becomes a seasonal nightmare. Think that a day in the life of a London museum director is cold, quiet, and austere? Think again. Giles Waterfield brings a combination of intellectual comedy and knockabout farce to the subject in this story of one long day in a museum full of scandals, screw-upsand more than a few scalawags. At the beginning of The Hound in the Left-hand Corner, Auberon, the brilliant but troubled director of the Museum of British History, is preparing one midsummer's day for the opening of the most spectacular exhibition his museum has ever staged. The centerpiece is a painting of the intriguing Lady St. John strikingly…
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The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition
by Giles Waterfield
Think that a day in the life of a London museum director is cold, quiet, and austere? Think again. Giles Waterfield now brings a combination of intellectual comedy and knockabout farce to the subject, in the story of one long day in a museum full of scandals, screw-ups . . . and more than a few scalawags.
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- Title The Hound in the Left-Hand Corner
- Author Giles Waterfield
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-02-17
- ISBN 9780743475532 / 0743475534
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.76 x 0.69 in (21.44 x 14.63 x 1.75 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects London (England), Humorous fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004041091
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booklist, 01/01/2004, Page 828
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/01/2004, Page 15
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