Alexander McCall Smith

Heavenly Date And Other Flirtations (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"I haven't read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time."
Sunday Telegraph

From the creator of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency comes a medley of perverse couplings, casual dates and romantic encounters: hilarious tales that will sadden, inspire and surprise. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves - entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, complex and sometimes, completely disastrous.

"Reminiscent of Roald Dahl in their dark ironies, these tales of the emotional unexpected are perceptive, deftly written and droll."
Michel Faber, author of The Crimson Petal and the White

"The people who inhabit these stories are funny, shocking, middle-class and sinister, the author's wacky imagination being the only constant we can always take for granted." The Scotsman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847673718
• Artikelnr.: 38358198

Autorenporträt

Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over fifty books, including the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels and several collections of short stories, including The Girl Who Married a Lion and Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations. Many of his books have become bestsellers throughout the world and he has received numerous awards for his writing, including the British Book Awards Author of the Year Award in 2004 and a CBE for Services to Literature in 2007. He lives in Scotland.

Rezensionen

The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision . . . This is art that conceals art. I haven't read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time. Sunday Telegraph