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Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle
by Kerr, Peter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 1585745480
- ISBN 13
- 9781585745487
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New Braunfels, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Lyons Pr, 2002. Hardcover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine slightly bumped/ slight readres slant/ small spot on top of book
Synopsis
'Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and Snowball Oranges.It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and 'experiences', and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners.However, laughter is the best medicine when confronted with consuming a local dish of rats, the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance and attending a shotgun wedding. The colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goatherd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restores the family's faith in human nature and helps them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain. Full of life and colour, hilarious and revealing, and set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Mallorca.By the same author: Manana Manana and Thistle Soup.
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- Bookseller
- Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032061
- Title
- Snowball Oranges: A Winter's Tale on a Spanish Isle
- Author
- Kerr, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1585745480
- ISBN 13
- 9781585745487
- Publisher
- Lyons Pr
- Place of Publication
- Guilford, Ct, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Product_type
- 2
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Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar is a family owned and operated on-line bookstore. We are building a small non-conventional farm in the Texas Hill Country. We operate our bookstore out of a small outbuilding. Our books are located by searching every garage sale and thrift store, that we can, in over seven counties. We love the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of placing one person's unwanted book in the hands of someone who needs it (it also helps pay for the books we get to keep for ourselves).
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