The casual vacancy /
Rowling, J. K.
The casual vacancy / - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. - 503 p. ; 25 cm.
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
9780316228534 0316228532 0316228583 (pbk.) 9780316228589 (pbk.)
2012943788
016068239 Uk
City council members--Death--Fiction.
Local elections--Fiction.
City and town life--England--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
PR6068.O93 / C37 2012
823/.914
The casual vacancy / - 1st ed. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. - 503 p. ; 25 cm.
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
9780316228534 0316228532 0316228583 (pbk.) 9780316228589 (pbk.)
2012943788
016068239 Uk
City council members--Death--Fiction.
Local elections--Fiction.
City and town life--England--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Black humor (Literature)
PR6068.O93 / C37 2012
823/.914