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false <![CDATA[A Far Cry from Kensington]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170709256m/69516.jpg 69516 15 Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand, and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired young war widow, she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher ("of very good books") and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington rooming-house. At work and at home Mrs. Hawkins soon uncovered evil: shady literary doings and a deadly enemy; anonymous letters, blackmail, and suicide. With aplomb, however, Mrs. Hawkins confidently set about putting things to order, little imagining the mayhem which would ensue. Now decades older, thin, successful, and delighted with life in Italy -- quite a far cry from Kensington -- Mrs. Hawkins looks back to all those dark doings, and recounts how her own life changed forever. She still, however, loves to give advice: "It's easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half....I offer this advice without fee; it is included in the price of this book." A masterwork by "Britain's greatest living novelist" (Sunday Telegraph, 1999), A Far Cry from Kensington has been hailed as "outstanding" (The Observer) and "wickedly and adroitly executed"(The New York Times). "Far Cry is, among other things, a comedy that holds a tragedy as an egg-cup holds an egg" (Philadelphia Inquirer). 67358 1988 A Far Cry from Kensington total:230|5:48|4:101|3:64|2:15|1:2| 230 868 490 51 4 2 false false Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 12:33:37 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 12:37:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 10:52:05 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:19:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 15:15:38 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 11:30:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 02:55:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 17:47:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:04:35 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:04:35 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 12:07:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 06:30:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 05:50:31 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 05:56:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 08:08:43 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 08:36:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 05:23:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 05:23:06 -0700 2009
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1 of: A Far Cry from Kensington [Hardcover:]
By: Muriel Spark
Condition: Used - Very Good
Sold by: World of Books Ltd £0.01

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