Status
Checked out
Due 6/19/2019
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Description
Lady Sybil, wife of Sam Vimes, convinces him to travel to the countryside for a vacation. Out of his element, Sam soon finds various crimes to investigate. But he is out of his element and must rely on his instincts to bring the culprits to justice.
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Publication
Harper (2011), Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC), 416 pages
Pages
416
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Physical description
416 p.; 6 inches
Awards
Locus Award (Finalist — Fantasy Novel — 2012)
British Book Award (Shortlist — Popular Fiction — 2011)
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (Winner — 2012)
Prometheus Award (Nominee — Novel — 2012)
Locus Recommended Reading (2011)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Science Fiction and Fantasy — 2011)
Media reviews
Pratchett is a master storyteller. He is endlessly inventive, even when telling a routine kind of tale. He gives you more information and more story than you need, just because he can, and this is completely satisfying. He is a master of complex jokes, good bad jokes, good dreadful jokes and a kind
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of insidious wisdom about human nature (and other forms of alien nature). I think his mad footnotes are there because he can't stop his mind whirring, and our whirring minds go with him. I read his books at a gallop and then reread them every time I am ill or exhausted. Show Less
LCC
PR6066.R34 S65
ISBN
0062011847 / 9780062011848