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Название книги: Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Автор(ы): Alexander Smith
Жанр: Триллер
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The fifth book in the 44 Scotland Street series, 2008Copyright © 2008 by Alexander McCall SmithIllustrations copyright © 2008 by Iain McIntosh*
This book is forJan Rutherford and Lesley Winton*
Preface
For many years I wanted to capture the very particular romance of living in Edinburgh, one of the most beautiful and entrancing cities in the world. The offer to write a novel in a daily newspaper gave me just such an opportunity – and I seized it with enthusiasm. That resulted in 44 Scotland Street, a novel written in short chapters that were then published in The Scotsman and subsequently in book form. This book and the four volumes that followed it represent a revival of an old-fashioned literary form that had more or less died out in the twentieth century: the serial novel.I found the serial form to be a most agreeable one. The story has numerous plots; characters drift in and out; some matters are unresolved; strange things happen. In short, a serial novel is particularly well
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