The casual vacancy / J.K. Rowling.
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Record details
- ISBN: 0316228583 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780316228589 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 503 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: Trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little Brown and Co./Back Bay Books, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in hardcover in 2012. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader UG 7.2 28 28 154481 |
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Subject: | City council members > Death > Fiction. Local elections > Fiction. City and town life > England > Fiction. England > Fiction. Country life > England > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. |
Genre: | Black humor (Literature) |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Ulysses Library Association.
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Summary:
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?