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Showing The Flag
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Showing The Flag
Contributors:
By (Author) Jane Gardam
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:
Abacus
Publication Date:
1st September 2009
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
823.914
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
176
Dimensions:
Width 120mm, Height 200mm, Spine 130mm
Weight:
126g
Description
The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.
Author Bio
Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize.THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award.
