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Genre/Form: | novels Fiction History Novels Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Hagen; Clays Ltd.,; Hodder and Stoughton (Firm), |
ISBN: | 0340752068 0340921129 9780340752067 9780340921128 |
OCLC Number: | 1008088591 |
Notes: | Black paper case binding; illustrated dust jacket. Entrant in the V & A Illustration Awards 2007. |
Description: | 448 pages ; 25 cm |
Series Title: | Sceptre book. |
Responsibility: | George Hagen. |
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"* 'A fine novel, about family, migration, identity and the struggle to find and hold onto it. It is also hugely entertaining and very, very funny.' - Roddy Doyle on THE LAMENTS * 'Extremely funny' - Daily Mail on THE LAMENTS * 'The family story has been a durable mainstay of the novel for more than a century... THE LAMENTS is a lively corrective to the subgenre, a family story on speed, with a jolt of black comedy that makes it a close relative to that greatest of all American family stories, The Simpsons... any apparent invitation to either characters or readers to fall into a sentimental slump is quickly withdrawn. The" Read more...


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