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The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van (Today Show Book Club #5)
por Bennett, Alan
- Usado
- Brochura
- Condição
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812969650
- ISBN 13
- 9780812969658
- Livreiro
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este item
Random House Trade Paperbacks. Used - Good. . . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
Sinopse
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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- BOS-K-03a-01226
- Título
- The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van (Today Show Book Club #5)
- Autor
- Bennett, Alan
- Estado do livro
- Used - Good
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0812969650
- ISBN 13
- 9780812969658
- Editorial
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2002-11-01
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More Than Words Inc.
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More Than Words Inc.
Membro de Biblio desde 2016
Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
