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The Clothes They Stood Up in and the Lady in the Van: And, the Lady in the Van
by Bennett, Alan
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812966430
- ISBN 13
- 9780812966435
- Seller
-
New Braunfels, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Random House Inc, 2002. Soft Cover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine hinge creased/ several page tips creased/ previous owners name inside front cover
Synopsis
The Ransomes had been burgled. "Robbed," Mrs. Ransome said. "Burgled," Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though "burgled" was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.This swift-moving comic fable will surprise you with its concealed depths. When the sedate Ransomes return from the opera to find their Notting Hill flat stripped absolutely bare--down to the toilet paper off the roll (a hard-to-find shade of forget-me-not blue)--they face a dilemma: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly the world is full of unlimited and frightening possibility. But just as they begin adjusting to this giddy freedom, a newfound interest in sex, and a lack of comfy chairs, a surreal reversal of events causes them to question their assumptions yet again. The Ransomes' bafflement is the reader's delight. Alan Bennett's gentle but scathing wit, unerring ear for dialogue, and sense of the absurd make The Clothes They Stood Up In a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019686
- Title
- The Clothes They Stood Up in and the Lady in the Van: And, the Lady in the Van
- Author
- Bennett, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0812966430
- ISBN 13
- 9780812966435
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Product_type
- 2
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
Biblio member since 2005
New Braunfels, Texas
About Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
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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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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