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Showing The Flag
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Showing The Flag
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jane Gardam
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:176 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 120 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780349122540
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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| Imprint |
Abacus
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| Publication Date |
2 July 2009 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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 Biography
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.
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