The Wild Cherry Tree

Bates, H. E.:

ISBN 10: 0140033432 / ISBN 13: 9780140033434

Published by Harmondsworth ; Ringwood : Penguin Books Ltd, 1977

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171 S. / p. Einband gering berieben und begriffen, Seiten leicht lichtrandig, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. / Binding slightly rubbed and seized, pages lightly light-margined, overall a good copy. 01-04-103 9780140033434 Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann zur Zeit in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei. Bitte beachten Sie: Auf Grund der vorgegebenen Versandkosten von AbeBooks / ZVAB kann es bei Büchern über 1 kg oder bei mehrbändigen Werken zu höheren Versandkosten kommen. Please note: Due to the shipping costs specified by AbeBooks / ZVAB, there may be higher shipping costs for books over 1 kg or for multi-volume works. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 120 Kl.-8°, Original-Broschur /Original-Brochure.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wild Cherry Tree
• Publisher: Harmondsworth ; Ringwood : Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140033432
• ISBN 13: 9780140033434
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 120 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

First published in 1968, The Wild Cherry Tree is a late collection of ten tales including comic vignettes, a humorous celebration of the sensual life, and several explorations of love, loneliness, and problematic relationships.'The Wild Cherry Tree' sees the wife of a pig-farmer who dresses like a 'shabby, straddling scarecrow' as she tends her pigs by day, but, alone in the evenings, adorns herself in exotic clothes and jewels without leaving the house. That is until one day, when she has to deal with the consequences.'Same Time, Same Place' follows an impoverished spinster and a lonely bachelor who become friends, but when he drunkenly and clumsily proposes to her she avoids him, denying herself 'the possibility of friendship with a man who genuinely likes her.''The First Day of Christmas' observes a man with his lover on a festive evening out, surrounded by fellow drinkers and full of saucy dialogue, who is torn between asking her hand and burying his grief in drink.'The Black Magnolia' celebrates the sensual life in a farce involving two voluptuous and liberated women and a repressed, tee-total bachelor.The bonus story 'A Waddler' is Bates's first published story, and is a village sketch with colourful dialogue. It follows a man as he deals with the death of his overly critical wife, as he is conversely complimented by a fellow widow on carrying his grief so well.