Author: Craig McLay
Year: 2012
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Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Mystery
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9780987947840
0987947842 |
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Village Books is a local institution...which is good, because most of the staff probably belong in one.
There's the manager, Dante Andolini, who's hiding more than just his hypochondria from his overbearing mother...Sebastian Donleavy, whose hedonistic lifestyle is two rails short of being on the rails...Aldous Swinghammer, whose philosophical eccentricities have not been the biggest hit with the ladies...Ebeneezer Chipping, whose crotchety exterior hides a burning passion for the Spanish emigre next door...Mina Bovary, whose crazy husband may have just gone AWOL with an arsenal of fragmentary explosive devices...and the store's long-suffering assistant manager, who is spinning his wheels in retail while he waits for something better to come along.
That something better may be new assistant manager Leah Dashwood, an aspiring actress with an ambitious plan to transform the store and its staff in a way that will turn their carefully disordered world on its head. Will the store survive? Will it be bought over by its evil corporate competition? All questions will be answered (but not necessarily in that order) in this hilarious debut novel.
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