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Clanchy, Kate, 1965-
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Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Scots -- England -- Fiction.
Caregivers -- Fiction.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
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Clanchy, Kate, 1965-
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Scots -- England -- Fiction.
Caregivers -- Fiction.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
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Meeting
the
English
/ Kate Clanchy.
by
Clanchy, Kate, 1965-
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2015, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION CLA
Subjects
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Scots -- England -- Fiction.
Caregivers -- Fiction.
Cerebrovascular disease -- Patients -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
1250059771
9781250059772
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
310 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job, he finds, is to care for playwright and one-time literary star Phillip Prys, dumbfounded and paralyzed by a massive stroke, because, though two teenage children, two wives, and a literary agent all rattle 'round Phillip's large house, they are each too busy with their peculiar obsessions to do it themselves. As the city bakes, Struan finds himself tangled in a midsummer's dream of mistaken identity, giddying property prices, wild swimming, and overwhelming passions. For everyone, it is to be a life-changing summer.
Meeting
the
English
is a bright book about dark subjects--a tale about kindness and its limits, told with love. Spiked with witty dialogue and jostling with gleeful, zesty characters, it is a glorious debut novel from an acclaimed writer of poetry, non-fiction, and short stories"--Publisher.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
First novel.
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