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Village Books (English Edition) di [Craig McLay]

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*** Winner of the 2012 eFestival of Words award for best literary fiction! ***

Village Books is a local institution…which is good, because most of the staff probably belong in one.

The manager’s addiction to WebMD has turned him into a closeted hypochondriac. The cashier’s husband may have just gone AWOL with a small arsenal of fragmentary explosive devices. The fiction lead is buying urine on the black market. Trying to hold it all together is the store’s long-suffering assistant manager, who is spinning his wheels in retail while he waits for something better to come along.

That something better may be Leah Dashwood, an aspiring actress and new assistant manager with an ambitious plan to transform the store and its staff in a way that will turn their carefully disordered world on its head. Will the store survive or will it be bought over by its evil corporate competition?

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325 pagine
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28 marzo 2012
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Craig McLay was born in Scotland and asked to leave shortly thereafter. He now lives in Guelph, where he spends most of his time trying to stop his sons from changing gears while he is driving. He can be reached (but not grasped) at his Facebook author page (facebook.com/cmvillagebooks). --Questo testo si riferisce alla paperback edizione.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007PVCVFY
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 787 KB
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Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
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Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 325 pagine

Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 469,544 in Kindle Store (Visualizza i Top 100 nella categoria Kindle Store)
- n. 8,570 in Narrativa umoristica
- n. 32,905 in Letteratura e narrativa (in inglese)
- n. 47,878 in Letteratura in lingua straniera

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Grande delusione

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Probabilmente era un libro scritto bene, una storia ben strutturata e tutto il resto. Ok anche che il narratore fa sapere fin da subito che è un ateo. Ma personalmente non tollero che in un libro Dio venga apertamente insultato.

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A Simple Wish

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For about the first quarter of this book I kept wondering when the sci-fi element or the supernatural element was going to make an appearance. After all, the previous books I have read by Mr McLay would seem to suggest that these are his milieu. Then I realised, this is a different sort of book - this is a book about life. So three books by one author and all in different genres - go on, you can tell us Craig McLay is the pseudonym for a writing group and each of these books has been written by a different member.

This is such a gentle story, told by one man about how he has ended up working in a bookshop when all he really wants is to find his perfect partner and settle down in to family life. When aspiring actress Leah stumbles in to the eponymous Village Books it seems that fate has conspired to give him what he wants. After all she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and she knows her literature, maybe that's why the first words out of his mouth are a proposal - sadly he is far too late as Leah is already engaged. Just one more disappointment in a life ocnstructed of such.

What is so compelling about this book is the cast of characters that inhabit Village Books. to say they are a disfunctional bunch of neurotics is doing them a disservice. They are just a bunch of normal people thrown together in a work environment that just so happens to bring out the worst in them. Whether it was the setting of a book store or the narration style I found myself comparing it to Caroline Kepsnes's You and although it is a vastly different storyline there is a symbiotic feel between the two stories; it also reminded me of the movie Empire Records with snatches of You've Got Mail.

I found it to be a joyful tale - even if the favoured drink in the local tavern is a horrible, cheap white cider that is derided here. Yes, it is unrealistic in that everyone gets, eventually, their own happy ending but you know what, I like that. I like that when you have such simple wishes for your future - ultimately each character doesn't want something unattainable - they can really come to pass. There are ups and downs but, at the end of it all, you are left with a smile on your face and a sense of happy closure.

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Xela752

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I got this free on bookbub ages ago and only recently decided to give it a go. It's not my genre at all but I am so glad I read it. It's very funny, the characters are all nuts! It is very well written, like having a conversation with your best friend in the pub and finding out his world is crazy, ironic, sarcastic but fantastic all at the same time. You actually like all the characters and really want things to go okay for them. It's written very plainly and simply, no fluffy filler and pages of description, but he beautifully goes of on a tangent whilst narrating about something, it sounds wrong, I know, but it all fits brilliantly. I love the quietly slipped in book and film quotes ( is it really sad I recognised them all?), and the Barça stuff ( I love them too!). This is a gem of a book, it was a delight to read and I am so glad I took a chance with it and I would recommend it to everyone. Obviously I am now off to delve into the rest of his books.

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Scotia

I liked the gentle narrative, the sarcasm and the humour

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A lovely book with very interesting and quirky characters. I liked the gentle narrative, the sarcasm and the humour. Anyway I could not overly fault a free book about a book shop. I will definitely be reading more of Craig McLays books.

A minor irritation was when an awful lot of loose ends were so neatly tied up at the end. This felt like those scenes at the end of movies where the audience sees a little clip of the film, or perhaps just a series of photos of the characters, and the director adds text to say what they have done since the story ended - you know the kind of thing: John went on to qualify as an astronaut and is now preparing for a trip to Mars" etc..

I heartily recommend that you get a copy of this book and follow the writer (metaphorically speaking).

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noddy

Great book, would more than happily read through more of his works

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 13 luglio 2017

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Great book, about an strange assortment of people working in a bookshop, making their own odd paths through life. I enjoyed this immensely, I loved the humour, I loved the language used to tell their stories, I did get a bit bogged down with all the various characters, but I sorted them out in my head in the end. The only downside was one chapter in which the author explained what the characters favourite books were, and there were a lot of characters to go through. I felt this chapter was unnecessary and it looked as if it had been placed as a filler chapter, which in itself was strange as there certainly were plenty of pages to read through!

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Tony L. Duxbury

Village Books

Recensito nel Regno Unito 🇬🇧 il 28 aprile 2017

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A feel good book. Gentle humour and great observations on life. A down to earth sort of book about a cross section of humanity crammed together in a work environment. All have their problems, prejudices and different outlooks on life. Most are drifting or waiting for something. Suddenly, things change for all of them and some find it hard to cope. Told from the point of view of one the managers who reluctantly gets more involved in his co-workers lives than he wishes. Certainly good for a few chuckles.

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