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008 130715s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
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020 $a9780345806628 (paperback)
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050 00 $aPR6025.I88$bC45 2013
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084 $aFIC019000$aFIC045000$aFIC016000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMitford, Nancy,$d1904-1973.
245 10 $aChristmas Pudding & Pigeon Pie /$cNancy Mitford ; foreword by Jane Smiley.
246 3 $aChristmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie
246 3 $aPigeon Pie
250 $aFirst Vintage Books edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bVintage Books, A division of Random House LLC,$c2013.
300 $axiv, 354 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie are two sparkling comedies from early in the career of Nancy Mitford, beloved author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, here published in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley. In Christmas Pudding, an array of colorful characters converge on the hunt-obsessed Lady Bobbin's country house, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. In Pigeon Pie, set at the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sophia Garfield dreams of becoming a beautiful spy but manages not to notice a nest of German agents right under her nose, until the murder of her maid and kidnapping of her beloved bulldog force them on her attention, with heroic results. Delivered with a touch lighter than that of Mesitford's later masterpieces but no less entertaining, these comedies combine glamour, wit, and fiendishly absurd plots into irresistible literary confections"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Two early comic novels by British novelist Nancy Mitford, here combined in one volume with a new introduction by Jane Smiley"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Family Life.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Humorous.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
700 1 $aSmiley, Jane.
700 1 $aMitford, Nancy,$d1904-1973.$tPigeon Pie.