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The Blue
Maggie Gee
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Description for The Blue
Paperback.
The actors in these short stories quietly and unobtrusively assume their place in the world. An older woman rids herself of social shackles in the hypnotic title story as she moves towards the sea and freedom, a man packs in his day job to sell miniature suitcases, while a woman converts a freelance evangelist after their plane nearly crashes. Maggie Gee deftly encapsulates a world in which a moment of impatience with a spouse can cost a family their lives and a dying man's last thoughts are of gathering his wife's favourite flowers in a bouquet. Her characters are all ... Read more
The actors in these short stories quietly and unobtrusively assume their place in the world. An older woman rids herself of social shackles in the hypnotic title story as she moves towards the sea and freedom, a man packs in his day job to sell miniature suitcases, while a woman converts a freelance evangelist after their plane nearly crashes. Maggie Gee deftly encapsulates a world in which a moment of impatience with a spouse can cost a family their lives and a dying man's last thoughts are of gathering his wife's favourite flowers in a bouquet. Her characters are all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Telegram Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846590139
SKU
V9781846590139
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Maggie Gee
Maggie Gee has published ten novels to great acclaim, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) and The Flood (longlisted for the Orange Prize). She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.
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