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Village Books (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Craig McLay (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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*** Winner of the 2012 eFestival of Words award for best literary fiction! ***

Village Books is a local institution…which is good, because most of the staff probably belong in one.

The manager’s addiction to WebMD has turned him into a closeted hypochondriac. The cashier’s husband may have just gone AWOL with a small arsenal of fragmentary explosive devices. The fiction lead is buying urine on the black market. Trying to hold it all together is the store’s long-suffering assistant manager, who is spinning his wheels in retail while he waits for something better to come along.

That something better may be Leah Dashwood, an aspiring actress and new assistant manager with an ambitious plan to transform the store and its staff in a way that will turn their carefully disordered world on its head. Will the store survive or will it be bought over by its evil corporate competition?
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  4. Data di pubblicazione
    28 marzo 2012
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    787 KB
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Craig McLay was born in Scotland and asked to leave shortly thereafter. He now lives in Guelph, where he spends most of his time trying to stop his sons from changing gears while he is driving. He can be reached (but not grasped) at his Facebook author page (facebook.com/cmvillagebooks).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007PVCVFY
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 787 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 325 pagine
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Esther
1,0 su 5 stelle Grande delusione
Recensito in Italia il 21 maggio 2017
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Probabilmente era un libro scritto bene, una storia ben strutturata e tutto il resto. Ok anche che il narratore fa sapere fin da subito che è un ateo. Ma personalmente non tollero che in un libro Dio venga apertamente insultato.
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Xela752
5,0 su 5 stelle Absolutely Awesome
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 8 aprile 2018
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I got this free on bookbub ages ago and only recently decided to give it a go. It's not my genre at all but I am so glad I read it. It's very funny, the characters are all nuts! It is very well written, like having a conversation with your best friend in the pub and finding out his world is crazy, ironic, sarcastic but fantastic all at the same time. You actually like all the characters and really want things to go okay for them. It's written very plainly and simply, no fluffy filler and pages of description, but he beautifully goes of on a tangent whilst narrating about something, it sounds wrong, I know, but it all fits brilliantly. I love the quietly slipped in book and film quotes ( is it really sad I recognised them all?), and the Barça stuff ( I love them too!). This is a gem of a book, it was a delight to read and I am so glad I took a chance with it and I would recommend it to everyone. Obviously I am now off to delve into the rest of his books.
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Kelly
5,0 su 5 stelle Five Stars
Recensito in Canada il 14 ottobre 2016
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This was a wonderful and refreshing story filled with charming characters, plausible plot lines and a good ending.
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Nanohead
5,0 su 5 stelle One of the funniest books I have EVER read.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 17 marzo 2013
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I must confess, I don't usually read for humor. I like all those shallow action books, spys, thrillers, etc.

This thing is on a different level, if your sense of humor connects with it. I read this over the course of the week of air travel, where I was on airplanes, basically LMAO (for those texters in the bunch). I laughed so hard in some passages, that the folks sitting next to me must have wondered if I was entirely ok.

The story isn't much of a story, but rather a narrative of a timeframe in someones life. While there is a beginning, a middle and an end, its not highbrow literature by any stretch, nor was it meant to be I assume. The whole construct is an assembly of lost in life people, operating a local run down, out of touch book store in a seedy section of Toronto. Village books is more of a deep character study of the type of folks that end up in these places, work in local businesses, and are hardly noticed by the more ambitious people in the world.

It is a story of losers and winners, of accommodation to your life and its surroundings, and of what happens when you don't have a clear plan in life (which very few of us really have). And the whole thing is told as an inward looking, first person narration, in the funniest way possible. I could tell that Mr McLay started down one path, then became much more comfortable with his characters, and then solidified the entire story arc around where he ended up.

The prose is simply witty beyond belief, self aware, self deprecating, and just insane sometimes. The characters are a real ragtag collection of bizarre people, who are around you every day, but you may not notice. They all have these thin stories about their lives, and there's always a hero/standout in the bunch, but it takes time to figure out who they are.

Each and every person in this book is massively different, and represent some level of extreme personality of someone who is sort of lost in life, adrift in the sea of possibilities, but having little compass (with the exception of a couple of characters in the book). The one story arc that is present, is that many of these people eventually find a path to lock on to, a direction that seems reasonable enough to follow, usually created more by circumstance than some grand plan.

I immensely enjoyed reading Village Books. It was wholly original, hilarious, edgy and just plain fun. I'm now going to buy every other book ever written by Craig McLay
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Irma Walter
2,0 su 5 stelle Stopped reading it
Recensito in Germania il 30 marzo 2014
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I suppose the cover is intriguing, that's why I picked up the book. I stopped reading it about 20% into the book, because I don't care to be sucked into weird relationships. The constellation looked pretty unreal to me, but then perhaps my horizons are too limited.
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Mark
5,0 su 5 stelle I couldn't put this down
Recensito in Australia il 31 gennaio 2016
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I feel a little guilty getting such a good story for free (I picked up Village Books during a free promotion the author was running). That said I'd say his promotion tactic has worked. After finishing this I checked out his back catalogue I've earmarked a couple that I'll be buying in the future.

It's an entertaining slice-of-life type story, following the (mis)adventures of the book store employees. Full of quick wit and uniquely quirky characters, I couldn't put this down.
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