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Author McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948- author.

Title Pianos and flowers : brief encounters of the romantic kind / Alexander McCall Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
©2019

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F MCCALL SMITH, A.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION MCCALL SMITH    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC MCCALL SMITH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION MCCALL SMITH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION MCCALL SMITH    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION MCCALL SMITH, ALEXANDER    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F MCCALL SMITH    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Wickham Branch Library - Adult Department  F MCCALL SMITH    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F MCC    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F MCCALLSM    Check Shelf

Edition First United States edition.
Description ix, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note Originally published in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh in 2019.
Summary "In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light, and say Yes, it might have happened just like that. This journey of exploration takes us to some exotic places. We share the lives of three sisters, brought up in Penang. We read of what happened to them, and to their Chinese neighbors caught in the tides of war. We see a group of small boys in a Glasgow slum, their young lives stunted by poverty, and hear how life worked out in contrasting ways for them. We follow a young woman's search for love in the unlikely realm of Egyptian antiquities. And through all of these photographs, and all of these stories, there runs the same refrain: the possibilities of love, of friendship, of happiness lie before us. There are big stories in these simple pictures. At first glance the photographs may seem unexceptional: the mere freezing of a moment in time. But delve deeper and you will realize that these photographs speak volumes"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Subject Antiquities -- Egyptian -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Love -- Fiction.
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Genre/Form Short stories, England.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Short stories.
Added Title Short stories. Selections
ISBN 9780593315750 (hardcover)
0593315758 (hardcover)
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