Small World

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• Jogging in the woods at Bellagio

  Small World is in the author’s words ‘a kind of sequel’ to Changing Places, published nine years ago. The place-changers, Zapp and Swallow, are again central characters; the dreadful Ringbaum, whose competitiveness enabled him to win a famous game of ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

• Small World

  Small World is a post-structuralist parodying academic comedy. The characters are a whole collection of high-flying (and not so high-flying) academics — among them Fulvia Morgana the millionaire marxist and Siegfried von Turpitz the Nazi — who move a ... (read full critics)

  dannyreviews published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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  A really good and entertaining coral novel, that carries you around the globe following the stories of the main and of the side characters. Easy to read and with interesting digressions on the history and theories of literary criticism.

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  "On the shelf under the counter she kept a Bills and Moon romance to read in those slack periods where there were no passengers to deal ... (continue)

  Un pezzo letto in questo libro sembra dare ragione a un mio post, ed è sempre una bella soddisfazione: http://maurizionasi.it/libro-o-e-book-la-lezione-dei-ce…

  "On the shelf under the counter she kept a Bills and Moon romance to read in those slack periods where there were no passengers to deal with. The one she was reading at the moment was called Love Scene. It was about a girl called Sandra who went to work as a nanny for a film director whose wife had died tragically in a car accident, leaving him with two children to look after. Of course Sandra fell in love with the film director, though unfortunately he was in love with the actress taking the leading role in the film he was making - or was he just pretending to be in love with her to keep her sweet?"

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• English Books
• Paperback 352 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0140072659
• ISBN-13: 9780140072655
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam~mass
• Pub date: Mar 28, 1985
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook

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