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Foreigners, Drunks and Babies: Eleven Stories

✍ Scribed by Robinson, Peter

Book ID: 108250225
Publisher: Two Rivers Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: en-GB
Weight: 134 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781901677935

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✦ Synopsis

In this first collection of his imaginative fiction, Peter Robinson casts the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the mundanities and absurdities of people's lives from a wide variety of different cultures and times; among others: the Imperial Academiy of an ancient Eastern empire, the musical education of a northern parish priest,hand-to-hand fighting with a classroom of Soviet teachers and the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior.

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