Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
de Paul Torday
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0297851586
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851585
- Librería
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Sinopsis
Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning to glorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel; interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, and interview transcripts that deftly capture the absurdity of bureaucratic dysfunction. With a wickedly wonderful cast of charactersincluding a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldier and his intrepid fiancée, and Dr. Jones’s own devilish wifeSalmon Fishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero who discovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victim of political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Autor
- Paul Torday
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0297851586
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851585
- Editorial
- Weidenfeld & Nelson
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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