E-audiobook
Major Pettigrew's last stand a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307712875 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0307712877 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780307712851 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0307712850 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:08:57. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Peter Altschuler. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 188973 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Country life -- England -- Fiction Retirees -- Fiction Widowers -- Fiction Widows -- Fiction Pakistanis -- England -- Fiction Interracial friendship -- Fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. Love stories. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century when he falls in love with Pakistani widow Mrs. Ali, Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner. - Findaway World Llc
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.
The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?
From the Hardcover edition.
