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Heavenly Date And Other Flirtations

(Paperback, Main)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Heavenly Date And Other Flirtations

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781841954271

Publisher:

Canongate Books

Imprint:

Canongate Books

Publication Date:

5th September 2003

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

208

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm

Weight:

144g

Description

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 also 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.

Reviews

* 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 * Reminiscent of Roald Dahl in their dark ironies, these tales of the emotional unexpected are perceptive, deftly written and droll. -- Michael Faber * 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. -- Alan Taylor The Scotsman

Author Bio

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. In 2003 he was the winner of the UK's principal award for humorous writing, the Saga Award, and in the same year he won the Glenfiddich Award for Writing. Alexander McCall Smith lives in Scotland.

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