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Pianos and flowers brief encounters of the romantic kind

Pianos and flowers brief encounters of the romantic kind

McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.
Large Print 2021

"A delightful compendium of short stories inspired by images in the renowned photographic archive of The Sunday Times. A picture can paint a thousand words, but what about a vintage photograph? In 2015 Alexander McCall Smith wrote a book entitled Chance Developments: Unexpected Love Stories, in which he imagined the stories behind five chanced-upon black and white photographs. Who were those people, why were they smiling, what made them sad? He s...

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ISBN:
9780593294000
0593294009
Edition:
First large print edition
Description:
258 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 21 cm
large print
Notes:
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Polygon Books, an imprint of Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, in 2019"--Title page verso
Short stories
Contents:
Pianos and flowers
I'd cry buckets
Sphinx
Maternal designs
The dwarf tale-teller of the Romanian Rom
Duty
Iron jelloids
Students
Zeugma
Urchins
St John's wort
Blackmail
Pogo sticks and man with bicycle
La plage
Control Number:
3031255
Other Authors:
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- Short stories. Selections
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