i Wonder How The Book Got To Guernsey? Perhaps There Is Some Sort Of Secret Homing Instinct In Books That Brings Them To Their Perfect Readers. January 1946: London Is Emerging From The Shadow Of The Second World War, And Writer Juliet Ashton Is Looking For Her Next Book Subject. Who Could Imagine That She Would Find It In A Letter From A Man She's Never Met, A Native Of The Island Of Guernsey, Who Has Come Across Her Name Written Inside A Book By Charles Lamb....
as Juliet And Her New Correspondent Exchange Letters, Juliet Is Drawn Into The World Of This Man And His Friends--and What A Wonderfully Eccentric World It Is. The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society--born As A Spur-of-the-moment Alibi When Its Members Were Discovered Breaking Curfew By The Germans Occupying Their Island--boasts A Charming, Funny, Deeply Human Cast Of Characters, From Pig Farmers To Phrenologists, Literature Lovers All.
juliet Begins A Remarkable Correspondence With The Society's...
the Washington Post - Wendy Smith
though It Deals With A Dark Period In History, This First Novel Is An Essentially Sunny Work. It Affirms The Power Of Books To Nourish People Enduring Hard Timesnot So Surprising, Since Mary Ann Shaffer, Who Died Earlier This Year, Had A Long Career As A Librarian, Bookseller And Editor. Her Niece Annie Barrows, A Children's Author, Finished The Manuscript After Shaffer Fell Ill; Between Them, They Crafted A Vivid Epistolary Novel Whose Characters Spring To Life In Letters And Telegrams Exchanged Over The Course Of Nine Months Shortly After The End Of World War Ii…you Could Be Skeptical About The Novel's Improbabilities And Its Sanitized Portrait Of Book Clubs (doesn't Anyone Read Trashy Thrillers?), But You'd Be Missing The Point. the Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society Is A Sweet, Sentimental Paean To Books And Those Who Love Them.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Epistolary
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : The Dial Press
Author : Shaffer, Mary Ann,Barrows, Annie
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2008-07-29
Number Of Pages : 288
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0385340990
ISBN-13 : 9780385340991
Item weight : 0.85 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 5.5 in x 8.4 in
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