Miss Webster and Cherif
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2011
256 pages
978-1-4088-2255-5 (ISBN)
Description
Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington. Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she has a brush with terrorism - not that she cares about politics. Three weeks after Miss Webster has returned home her doorbell rings. There stands a beautiful young Arab man carrying a large suitcase. Who is he, why is he there and what does he want?
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-2255-5 (9781408822555)
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Patricia Duncker
Miss Webster and Chérif
Book
05/2007
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€10.50
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Patricia Duncker
Miss Webster and Chérif
Book
05/2006
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€18.90
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Person
Patricia Duncker is the author of the novels Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996), The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry and Miss Webster and Chérif. She has also written two books of short stories, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees and Seven Tales of Sex and Death, and a collection of essays on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall. Patricia Duncker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester.
Content
- Cover
- Praise for Miss Webster and Cherif
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Quotations
- Contents
- 1 The Messenger
- 2 Taxi Driver
- 3 The Visitor
- 4 Unsuitable Music
- 5 Attentat
- 6 Desert
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright Page
