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The uncommon reader

Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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Genre/Form: Humorous fiction
Belletristische Darstellung
Fiction
Named Person: Elizabeth, Queen of Great Britain; Königin II ) Elisabeth (Großbritannien
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9780374280963 0374280967 9781846680496 1846680492
OCLC Number: 163582083
Awards: Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2008.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2008.
Description: 120 p. ; 20 cm.
Contents: "When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovereing the joy of reading widely (from J.R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics) and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch." From the bookjacket.
Responsibility: Alan Bennett.
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The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and intelligently.  Read more...

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by mmfrank (WorldCat user on 2007-11-12)

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"Alan Bennett, with his combination of pitiless observation and gentle understatement, is perhaps the best-loved of English writers alive today." Sunday Telegraph"

 
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