Sto caricando le informazioni...

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (edizione 2010)

di Helen Simonson, Peter Altschuler (Narratore)

Utenti	Recensioni	Popolarità	Media voti	Citazioni
5,876	459	1,695	(3.95)	781
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?… (altro)

▾Informazioni sul libro

Utente:	CelesteM
Titolo:	Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Autori:	Helen Simonson
Altri autori:	Peter Altschuler (Narratore)
Info:	Random House Audio (2010), Edition: Unabridged, Audio CD
Collezioni:	La tua biblioteca
Voto:
Etichette:	fiction, British, 21st Century, 2010's, proof copy

Informazioni sull'opera

Una passione tranquilla di Helen Simonson

tutti i membri

▾Utenti

Aggiunto di recente da

biblioteca privata, hepzibah59, Margaret09, teawalifecarevillage, Sarahjrl, Ibelonginabook, GBCS_Lib, mimbza, NinaandShane, LisvaneLibrary

▾Etichette

▾Consigli di LibraryThing

▾Consigli degli utenti

505
La società letteraria di Guernsey di Mary Ann Shaffer (cransell, readr)
readr: Both stories have settings rich with flavor and details, a slower pace, yet filled with witty observations.
174
84, Charing Cross Road di Helene Hanff (wisemetis)
110
Camera con vista di E. M. Forster (kiwiflowa)
146
Precious Ramotswe, detective di Alexander McCall Smith (brenzi)
51
Passaggio in India di E. M. Forster (kiwiflowa)
30
Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo di Julia Stuart (teelgee)
30
Lamb in Love di Carrie Brown (mysterymax)
41
L'uomo che metteva in ordine il mondo di Fredrik Backman (Electablue)
1110
L'eleganza del riccio di Muriel Barbery (cransell)
10
Tempest-Tost di Robertson Davies (Cecilturtle)
10
Denti Bianchi di Zadie Smith (BookshelfMonstrosity)
BookshelfMonstrosity: Readers will enjoy White Teeth and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand for their character development and humor, along with lighthearted treatment of serious topics such as race relations, religious fanaticism, self-understanding, and similar aspects of modern English life.… (altro)
00
Illyrian Spring di Ann Bridge (inge87)
00
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass di Drew Hayden Taylor (Utente anonimo)
Utente anonimo: Although one book takes place in England, and the other on a Canadian First Nation's Reserve, both are humourous reads that include religious differences, cultural differences and historical and current prejudiced perceptions.
00
The Thing About Alice di Jean-Luke Swanepoel (Utente anonimo)

▾Liste

Fiction Featuring Cranky, Eccentric Old Folks (3)

Books Read in 2015 (63)

Recommend the 20 best books you've read in the last five years (285)

» 24 altro

Top Five Books of 2013 (230)

Top Five Books of 2021 (166)

Top Five Books of 2018 (396)

the old and the restless (15)

Books Read in 2014 (319)

wilfully eccentric little england (cosy read novels, england) (27)

Best 21st Century Books (So Far) (387)

Recommended books (2)

A Novel Cure (296)

Carole's List (259)

Great Audiobooks (57)

Contemporary Fiction (67)

Biggest Disappointments (121)

Books To Get From The Library (65)

Favorite Audiobooks Listened to in 2011 (26)

Indie Next Picks (37)

Books Read in 2012 (196)

Books Read in 2011 (152)

First Novels (168)

Spring Books (7)

Best Quirky Books (7)

Llibres que he llegit el 2022 (11)

Books to Read (59)

To Read (15)

▾Ti piacerà?

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

▾Conversazioni (Su link)

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 781 citazioni

▾Recensioni di utenti

Inglese (450) Olandese (3) Francese (3) Catalano (2) Spagnolo (1) Tedesco (1) Norvegese (1) Tutte le lingue (461)

data ▼ | voti

1-5 di 461 (prossimo | mostra tutto)

A pleasant enough holiday read. Major Pettigrew overcomes his somewhat stuffy, if enjoyable, background in the shires to befriend and ultimately marry Asian shopkeeper , Mrs. Ali. The end. (

)

Margaret09 | Apr 15, 2024 |

Victoria Shields says, along with the NYT: "Funny, barbed, delightfully winsome storytelling . . . As with the polished work of Alexander McCall Smith, there is never a dull moment . . . It's all about intelligence, heart, dignity and backbone." English fiction.

TNbookgroup | Mar 7, 2024 |

https://bloggingwoolf.org/2011/02/02/literary-heritage-in-a-sussex-village-woolf...
Knap werk, gesitueerd in het idyllische West-Sussex. Hoofdpersoon is major Pettigrew, een man van eer met diepmenselijke gevoelens. Er is zijn zoon Roger, materialistisch ingesteld en zijn mooie verloofde Sandy, én Mrs.Ali, de weduwe van de Pakistaanse winkelier, het enige in het dorpje. Het verhaal begint met het overlijden van broer Bertie en de hele commotie rond de beide Churchillgeweren, een erfenis van hun vader. Een beklijvend verhaal, beslist een aanrader.
De kwaliteit van het verhaal en de schrijfstijl gaan hand in hand. Cosy English litterature ;))) (

)

Baukis | Feb 25, 2024 |

Romance

BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |

I'm about a third of the way in. It's so cute! I totally love it. Still loved it by the end. Just a quaint, sweet book. (

)

hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |

data ▼ | voti

1-5 di 461 (prossimo | mostra tutto)

▾Recensioni da fonti esterne

3 recensioni

aggiungi una recensione

thingScore 100

Simonson .. is having a great time with her first novel. She is unsparing in her willingness to send up her characters and their little village, and she is often downright funny – that intelligent kind of funny that catches readers by surprise and makes them re-read a sentence several times to figure out how the author managed to make them laugh out loud so unexpectedly.The book is almost always pitch-perfect in its demonstration of how ridiculous our small ignorances can be – and how magnificent we are when we rise above them.

aggiunto da vancouverdeb | modificaGlobe and Mail, Peter Scowen (Apr 22, 2010)

This thoroughly charming novel wraps Old World sensibility around a story of multicultural conflict involving two widowed people who assume they're done with love. The result is a smart romantic comedy about decency and good manners in a world threatened by men's hair gel, herbal tea and latent racism..When depicted by the right storyteller, the thrill of falling in love is funnier and sweeter at 60 than at 16. The stakes are higher, after all, and the lovers have stored up decades of peculiarities and anxieties

aggiunto da kgodey | modificaThe Washington Post, Ron Charles (Mar 3, 2010)

As with the polished work of Alexander McCall Smith, there is never a dull moment but never a discordant note either. Still, this book feels fresh despite its conventional blueprint. Its main characters are especially well drawn, and Ms. Simonson makes them as admirable as they are entertaining. They are traditionally built, and that’s not just Mr. McCall Smith’s euphemism. It’s about intelligence, heart, dignity and backbone. “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” has them all.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaThe New York Times, Janet Maslin (Feb 22, 2010)

▾Altri autori

» Aggiungi altri autori (13 potenziali)

Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Helen Simonson	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	calcolato
Altschuler, Peter	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Tapia, Sonia	Traduttore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Wallis, Bill	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

▾Relazioni tra serie ed opera

È riassunto in

Encounters: Real Life Reading: The Geneva Deception | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand | The First Rule | The Accidental time Traveller di Reader's Digest

Ha come guida per lo studente

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson | Summary & Study Guide di BookRags

▾Premi e riconoscimenti

Premi e riconoscimenti

CBC Bookie Awards (Vincitore – Romanzo – 2011)

Dublin Literary Award (Lista completa – 2012)

Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance (Vincitore – 2011)

PEN/Hemingway Award (Candidato – Honorable Mention - 2011)

Waverton Good Read Award (Vincitore – 2010)

Menzioni

Christian Science Monitor Best Book (Narrativa – 2010)

New York Times bestseller (Narrativa – 2010)

Elenchi di rilievo

Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (International Fiction – 2010)

King County Library System Best Books (Fiction Books – 2010)

Reading Agency Mood Boosting Books (2012)

guarda la cronologia

▾Informazioni generali

Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.

Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.

Titolo canonico

Una passione tranquilla

Titolo originale

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Titoli alternativi

Data della prima edizione

2010-03-02

Personaggi

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Major Ernest Pettigrew

(mostra tutte le voci 22)

Luoghi significativi

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Edgecombe St. Mary, Sussex, England, UK

England, UK

Sussex, England, UK

Eventi significativi

Film correlati

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (???? | IMDb)

Epigrafe

Dedica

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

For John, Ian and Jamie

Incipit

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Major Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brother's wife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking.

Citazioni

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

He finished his tea and rose from the table to go to his room. "But I must ask you, do you really understand what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "My dear boy," said the Major. "Is there really any other kind?"

"Careful, careful," he said, feeling a splash of scalding tea on his wrist. "Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea."

Too few people today appreciate and pursue the delights of civilized culture for their own sake.

The stems were as unpleasant as rusty wire and the leaves curled and crisped, but the flowers, as big as tea plates, shone like claret-colored velvet against the old brick wall. (P. 110) ISBN 978-0-8129-8122-3

Ultime parole

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

(Click per vedere. Attenzione: può contenere anticipazioni.)

Nota di disambiguazione

Redattore editoriale

Dati dalle informazioni generali francesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Anchor Canada

Elogi

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Strout, Elizabeth

Schine, Cathleen

Dahl, Sophie

Smith, Alexander McCall

Lingua originale

Dati dalle informazioni generali olandesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Engels

DDC/MDS Canonico

LCC canonico

▾Riferimenti

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

▾Descrizioni del libro

Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?

▾Descrizioni da biblioteche

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

▾Descrizione degli utenti di LibraryThing

Descrizione del libro

Riassunto haiku