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"Amusing and intelligent throughout...The tone of the narrative is pitch-perfect" (Observer)
"A comic novelist of considerable stature...An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work" (Guardian)
"Deliciously entertaining" (Independent on Sunday)
"The writing is so sharp and waspish that comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Consistently inventive and entertaining" (Daily Mail)
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"A comic novelist of considerable stature...An assured, clever, raffishly inventive work" (Guardian)
"Deliciously entertaining" (Independent on Sunday)
"The writing is so sharp and waspish that comparisons with Evelyn Waugh are not misplaced" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Consistently inventive and entertaining" (Daily Mail)
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0099470179
- ISBN 13 9780099470175
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine352
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