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Title: OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS
By: John Cheever
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 1409087816
ISBN 13: 9781409087816
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 23 December, 2010
Pages: 112
Description: In an idyllic American village, Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears' paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village?
Synopsis: In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears's paradise is under threat; the pond he loves is being fouled by unscrupulous polluters involved in organised crime. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village?Cheever's wry fable of modern American is interlaced with musings on everything from the etiquette of supermarket queues to the evolution of the ice-skate.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Returns: Non-returnable
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OH WHAT A PARADISE IT SEEMS (PB)
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