The Three Suitors of Fred Belair
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),
品牌: Markham
基本信息·出版社:TINDAL STREET
·页码:308 页
·出版日期:2010年07月
·ISBN:0955647630
·International Standard Book Number:0955647630
·条形码:9780955647635
·EAN:9780955647635
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
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内容简介Winifred Belair is one of the returnees who gossip over drinks on the verandahs of the Caribbean island of St Caesare. Fred is still good-looking and eligible, but her friends warn her about the visit from Barbados of the Rev Alex Taylor - "looking for a soul-mate to help him with the Good Works. And save the world." Her other two suitors, typically for Markham, are figments of Markham's alter ego Pewter Stapleton's elaborately imagined fantasy. Readers of E. A. Markham's inimitable stories will not be surprised that this linked collection encompasses cricket, boxing and world politics as well as matrimony in later life; or that Pewter's travels take him to Boston. Massachussetts; Trinity College. Dublin: London, Sheffield; and the atmospheric streets of Paris.