The Darkness of Wallis Simpson and Other Stories [electronic resource]
Tremain, Rose2015
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Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, has forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. An East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life: He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his 'frame' - or does he? And there's a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel...
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[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
ISBN:
9781489015334
Language:
English
BRN:
2975248