Cavendish International Books
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Location: Bellingham, WA
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1-1/2 " 0007156537 2004 Hardcover in DJ 1st, later printing...BRAND NEW from [...]
5-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 1-1/2 " 0007156537 2004 Hardcover in DJ 1st, later printing...BRAND NEW from publisher...Never opened, Never owned, Never marked...Jacket protected in New, non-stick clear Mylar sleeve...Excellent Gift Giving quality...Big Davey Quinn is coming home...He's been gone almost twenty years, but nobody's forgotten him...Davey is a local hero, the seventh son of a seventh son...He brought fame to his home town and they've been grateful ever since...But in the intervening years Davey's home town has changed...The traditional family businesses like Duncan McGregor's Gentleman's Outfitters, and Priscilla's Ladies' Separates and Luxury Hair Styling, and the Frosty ice-cream parlour, have all closed down and been replaced with charity shops and 'Exciting New Housing Develpoments! ' and even a nightclub called Paradise Lost...The locals haven't changed much though...Bob Savory, who always had it in him, has made a million with his company Old Fashioned Foods (Cooked the Traditional Way), and he's branching out with an Irish-themed restaurant on the ring road...Francie McGinn, the divorced minister at the Poeple's Fellowship, is still trying to convert the town through his Fish-and-Chip Biblical Quiz Nights, and his ex-wife Cherith, who has had problems of her own, is now happily in a relationship with a depresed plumber...Ian Sansom charts all their lives, and the lives of many others, in his own wry and loving portrait of small town life..." Ring Road: There's no place like home "...by Ian Sansom....published by 4th Estate, London 2004...Hardcover in Dustjacket First Edition...Brand New Gift Giving quality *** Securely packed for safe delivery ~ We've been shipping books across North America and around the World, since 1965 ***
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