The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1846681332
- ISBN 13
- 9781846681332
- Seller
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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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.
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Funny, charming and just totally delightful!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F21IJ-00326
- Title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Author
- Alan Bennett
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1846681332
- ISBN 13
- 9781846681332
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2011-06-01
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