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UNINA9910811919103321 |
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Autore |
Meinke Peter |
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Titolo |
The piano tuner : stories / / by Peter Meinke |
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Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 1986 |
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0-8203-5247-0 |
1-280-49154-X |
9786613586773 |
0-8203-4358-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Contents -- I: Home Thoughts -- The Piano Tuner -- Alice's Brother -- Ruby Lemons -- The Ponoes -- Conversation with a Pole -- Losers Pay -- Even Crazy Old Barmaids Need Love -- II: From Abroad -- A Decent Life -- The Twisted River -- Sealink -- The Starlings of Leicester Square -- Winter Term -- The Water-Tree -- The Bracelet. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. |
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