The Resource Major Pettigrew's last stand, Helen Simonson
Major Pettigrew's last stand, Helen Simonson
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- Summary
- Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until 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 will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 587 pages (large print)
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9781410427526
- Label
- Major Pettigrew's last stand
- Title
- Major Pettigrew's last stand
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Simonson
- Title variation
- Major Pettigrews last stand
- Subject
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- Widows
- Widowers -- Fiction
- trueWidowers
- trueAging
- Country life
- Country life -- England -- Fiction
- England
- trueEngland
- Fiction
- trueGentle reads
- Interracial friendship
- trueInterracial friendship
- Interracial friendship -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Love stories
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Pakistanis
- Pakistanis -- England -- Fiction
- truePakistanis in Great Britain
- trueReading
- Retirees
- trueRetirees
- Retirees -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueRural life -- England
- trueSeniors
- trueShopkeepers
- Widowers
- trueVillages
- Widows -- Fiction
- trueWidows
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until 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 will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?
- Summary
- 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.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 342064
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Simonson, Helen
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Country life
- Retirees
- Widowers
- Widows
- Pakistanis
- Interracial friendship
- Country life
- Interracial friendship
- Pakistanis
- Retirees
- Widowers
- Widows
- England
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Major Pettigrew's last stand, Helen Simonson
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn606760702
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 587 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410427526
- Lccn
- 2010012483
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)606760702
- Label
- Major Pettigrew's last stand, Helen Simonson
- Note
- "A novel"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn606760702
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 587 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410427526
- Lccn
- 2010012483
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)606760702
Subject
- Widows
- Widowers -- Fiction
- trueWidowers
- trueAging
- Country life
- Country life -- England -- Fiction
- England
- trueEngland
- Fiction
- trueGentle reads
- Interracial friendship
- trueInterracial friendship
- Interracial friendship -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Love stories
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Pakistanis
- Pakistanis -- England -- Fiction
- truePakistanis in Great Britain
- trueReading
- Retirees
- trueRetirees
- Retirees -- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Romance fiction
- trueRural life -- England
- trueSeniors
- trueShopkeepers
- Widowers
- trueVillages
- Widows -- Fiction
- trueWidows
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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