The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1846680492
- ISBN 13
- 9781846680496
- Seller
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Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1st ediiton,5th printing in very good condition with unclippedd dust jacket showing minor signs of wear,no inscription or other writing throughout, Hardback,red boards.
Synopsis
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.
Reviews
Funny, charming and just totally delightful!
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- Bookseller
- shedlightbooks (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- sl2286
- Title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Author
- Alan Bennett
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1846680492
- ISBN 13
- 9781846680496
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
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