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Chargement... Winter Gardenpar Beryl Bainbridge
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I did not like this book, but I like the book it almost was. There's a vague sense of a great spy thriller that unfolds in a shocking and surprising way. But then, instead of unfolding, it ended. It's like Bainbridge couldn't pull off the plot details and so tried to shroud it in mystery. Disappointing but not awful. Just a strange incomplete feeling. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Douglas Ashburner had never been a womanizer. If his wife had murmured a single reproach, he would immediately have made a clean breast of things. Instead, her reaction to his sudden need for a long fishing holiday in the Highlands, seemed positively encouraging. So Ashburner finds himself changing the luggage labels in the taxi to Heathrow, and checking in for the flight to Moscow... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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He ground his teeth; having done his homework before he arrived he was irritated by the history lesson. ‘What does that say?’ he asked, pointing at a row of black letters, six feet high, erected on the roof of a nearby building.
‘Labour is glorious,’ translated Olga Fiodorovna.
‘Oh, a hospital,’ said Bernard, and wondered if he was brave enough to light a cigarette.
Olga Fiodorovna told him that in this instance, labour meant work. In her country such slogans were an incentive to the workers. It spurred them on.
‘In my country,’ said Bernard thoughtfully, ‘a slogan like that would be an incentive to violence.”
Like others, I just didn't understand it, and I wouldn't recommended it, but there were quite a few laughs nonetheless. ( )