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The Ugliest House in the World: Stories by Davies, Peter Ho
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- ISBN
- 9780395924808
- Book Title
- Ugliest House in the World : Stories
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Small Town & Rural, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Humorous / General
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- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Peter Ho Davies is a young writer of unusually worldly perspective. Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he writes stories that not only reflect his multinational heritage, but delight in odd juxtapositions. In tales that travel from Coventry to Kuala Lumpur, from the past to the present, and from hilarity to tragedy, American bandits herd ostriches in Patagonia, British soldiers confront Zulus in Natal, and John Wayne leads the way for local revolutionaries in Southeast Asia. These are stories in which small lives are affected by consequential events. In "A Union," a prolonged strike at a Welsh slate quarry plays mystifying tricks of time on a couple expecting a baby. In "The Silver Screen," ragtag rebels join a communist revolution with all the flair of the Keystone Kops. In the heartbreaking title story, a rural community in North Wales copes with the accidental death of a child and learns the reaches of guilt. With their deep vein of humanism and pointed humor, the stories
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0395924804
ISBN-13
9780395924808
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Book Title
Ugliest House in the World : Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Small Town & Rural, Short Stories (Single Author), General, Humorous / General
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Pr6054.A9u4 2003
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The eight stories in this first collection from British-born Oregonian Davies promise to keep you on your toes. They start benignly, often comically, but inevitably there comes a moment when, with the briefest of phrases, Davies startles the reader with a sudden turn down some melancholy and treacherous path., "The eight stories in this first collection from British-born Oregonian Davies promise to keep you on your toes. They start benignly, often comically, but inevitably there comes a moment when, with the briefest of phrases, Davies startles the reader with a sudden turn down some melancholy and treacherous path." Publishers Weekly "Rarely have ordinary mortals been so affectionately portrayed as they stumble into the jaws of history and cultural collision. Davies is a writer to behold with real pleasure." - Gish Jen, "The eight stories in this first collection from British-born Oregonian Davies promise to keep you on your toes. They start benignly, often comically, but inevitably there comes a moment when, with the briefest of phrases, Davies startles the reader with a sudden turn down some melancholy and treacherous path." Publishers Weekly "Allows us access not just to exotic latitudes, but to a realm of the imagination." The Chicago Tribune
Copyright Date
1997
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
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Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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