Uncommon Reader

Market worth: 650

Book Condition: Pre Loved

Uncommon Reader

Author : Alan Bennett

5483 reviews

Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

128

Pages

9781846681332

ISBN-13

1846681332

ISBN-10

Faber And Faber Penguin India

Publisher

176 mm

Height

110 mm

Width

9 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

From one of Englands most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely from J. R. Ackerley From one of Englands most celebrated writers, the author of the award-winning The History Boys, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of reading When her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering the joy of reading widely from J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, and Ivy Compton-Burnett to the classics and intelligently, she finds that her view of the world changes dramatically. Abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch. Her new passion for reading initially alarms the palace staff and soon leads to surprising and very funny consequences for the country at large.