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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100593316002
ISBN-139780593316009
eBay Product ID (ePID)23050083612
Product Key Features
Book TitleTiny Tales : Stories of Romance, Ambition, Kindness, and Happiness
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Historical, Humorous / General
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes, Mcintosh, Iain
GenreFiction
AuthorAlexander McCall Smith
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-045181
ReviewsPraise for Alexander McCall Smith's Tiny Tales : "Whimsical. . . . Quirky and delightful." -- Booklist (starred review) Praise for Alexander McCall Smith: "McCall Smith's generous writing and dry humor, his gentleness and humanity, and his ability to evoke a place and a set of characters without caricature or condescension have endeared his books to readers." -- The New York Times "A virtuoso storyteller." -- The Scotsman "A writer who charms many readers . . . McCall Smith's characters are well drawn and alive." -- The Providence Journal "McCall Smith's accomplished novels [are] dependent on small gestures redolent with meaning and main characters blessed with pleasing personalities." -- Newsday
Table Of ContentThis book contains tales of: LOVE Descent 3 Sister Angelica 6 By post 12 Takahashi Ichiro, passenger-pusher 16 Amuse-bouche: Romance & relationships 23 POPE RON The first adventure of Pope Ron 31 The Pope goes swimming 35 You the Pope? 37 The Pope in the country 43 Pope Ron & the book club 47 Pope Ron's friend 51 Amuse-bouche: Larry Porker & his friends 63 KINDNESS Jitan 71 Edith van Twist, failed soprano 76 Magnus Bjornbirgir, progressive Viking 81 The handbag 87 Amuse-bouche: Children & their parents 93 POIGNANCY Housemates 101 What happened three years later 105 The mathematician 112 Amuse-bouche: Life & its pitfalls 117 MEETING IN LIFTS Mr. Nariman Sodawaterwalla meets Leila Commissariat on the eighth floor of the Cricket Hotel, Mumbai 125 What happened to Phil Butters in the lift 132 Amuse-bouche: Geoff's cat, Stanley 137 REVENGE On the way down 145 Clarence Macphail 148 Amuse-bouche: Life & its further pitfalls 153 SCHOOL LIFE & AN EDUCATIONAL ONE In the swimming pool 161 Boarding-school story 169 The cure 174 Amuse-bouche: Caesar & the world of Rome 181 FRIENDSHIP Four dentists go on holiday 189 Harry Brick 194 Amuse-bouche: More cats 199 STRANGENESS At the arachnophobia workshop 207 Enlistment 212 Lord Lucan, fugitive 216 Little Piggish 222
SynopsisIt is often said that the best things in life come in small packages; anyone in search of proof need look no further than the stories in this collection from the acclaimed author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: brief, utterly engaging tales that offer lasting surprise and delight, accompanied by charming illustrations by Iain McIntosh. In Tiny Tales, Alexander McCall Smith explores romance, ambition, kindness, and happiness in thirty short stories accompanied by thirty witty cartoons designed by Iain McIntosh, McCall Smith's longtime creative collaborator. Here we meet the first Australian pope, who hopes to finally find some peace and quiet back home in Perth; a psychotherapist turned motorcycle racetrack manager; and an aspiring opera singer who gets her unlikely break onstage. And, of course, we spend time in McCall Smith's beloved Scotland, where we are introduced to progressive Vikings, a group of housemates with complex romantic entanglements, and a couple of globe-trotting dentists. These tales and illustrations depict the full scope of human experience and reveal the rich tapestry of life--painted in miniature.
LC Classification NumberPR6063.C326T58 2021
