The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1846680492
- ISBN 13
- 9781846680496
- Seller
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Portishead , Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Matilda Mary's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007964
- Title
- The Uncommon Reader
- Author
- Alan Bennett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 1846680492
- ISBN 13
- 9781846680496
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
- Size
- Small 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour; Royalty;
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