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The Casual Vacancy By JK Rowling 1st Edition Hardcover 2012
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Preowned in very good condition, minimal shelf wear on DJ”
- Signed By
- J. K. Rowling
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Features
- 1st Edition
- Age Level
- Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Subject
- Small Towns
- ISBN
- 9780316228534
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316228532
ISBN-13
9780316228534
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117354393
Product Key Features
Book Title
Casual Vacancy
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Psychological, Small Town & Rural, General, Literary, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
30.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-943788
Reviews
A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot... The Casual Vacancy immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny., There are plenty of pleasures to be had in The Casual Vacancy ....Parts of the story would be tonally of a piece with any Richard Price or Dennis Lehane novel, or an episode of The Wire ., I had come under the spell of a great novel....A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence....This is a deeply moving book by somebody who understands both human beings and novels very, very deeply., A vivid read with great, memorable characters and a truly emotional payoff....Rowling captures the humanity in everyone, even if that humanity is not always a pretty sight., The Casual Vacancy , JK Rowling's first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed....Jane Austen herself would admire the way [Rowling] shows the news of Barry's death spreading like a virus round Pagford., This book represents a truckload of shrewdness.... There were sentences I underlined for the sheer purpose of figuring out how English words could be combined so delightfully....genuinely moving., The Casual Vacancy is a complete joy to read....a stunning, brilliant, outrageously gripping and entertaining evocation of British society today., An insanely compelling page-turner.... The Casual Vacancy is a comedy, but a comedy of the blackest sort, etched with acid and drawn with pitch....Rowling proves ever dexterous at launching multiple plot lines that roar along simultaneously, never entangling them except when she means to. She did not become the world's bestselling author by accident. She knows down in her bones how to make you keep turning the pages.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
FIC
Synopsis
A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other., A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa ade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils...Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.
LC Classification Number
PR6068.O93C37 2012
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- k***3 (1339)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseArrived safely. Looks like a lifetime of great reading! Thanks for a smooth transaction!
- o***i (386)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat book. Condition is great. Thank you. Shipping was quick and it was packed well.
- p***a (59)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseI'm enjoying reading this. It makes a good mental mouthwash when there is way too much happening in the world. The sections are short. Good reading for all who need a quick visit to Mitford for balance and sanity. This would be good [as suggested] for light reading before bed. Also for flu or colds [paired with chicken soup] or for convalescing. People who love Mitford will love this.