{"first_publish_date": "2004", "title": "The lemon table", "covers": [139216], "lc_classifications": ["PR6052.A6657 L46 2004"], "key": "/works/OL1984724W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL238796A"}}], "dewey_number": ["823/.914"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Aging", "Fiction", "Older people", "Large type books"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"The setting range from nineteenth-century Sweden and Russia to a suburban 'Barnet Shop', where the narrator measures out his life in haircuts, and a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign of revenge against those who cough in concerts. In 'Knowing French' a fiercely independent eighty-year-old begins a correspondence with an author - 'Dear Dr. Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. A woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband in 'Appetite'; a retired soldier in 'Hygiene' makes his annual trip to attend a regimental dinner, run errands for his wife and spend the afternoon with a tart called Babs.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:40:07.206612"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-11T09:51:01.644453"}}