Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast

by Bill Richardson

ISBN: 1550541129
ISBN-13: 9781550541120
Format: Book

Summary

This novel about two brothers and their offbeat B&B establishment won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor in Canada, where it was a bestseller.

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"Harmless, sweetly miscellaneous glimpses into a pastoral paradise that, at its best, resembles its author's definition of a good bathroom book: so 'sufficiently pithy that it can be absorbed in brief spurts'."

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published date: 1993
Pages: 152

Other Editions

Hardcover - St Martins Pr (1996) - from $1.00
Paperback - St Martins Pr (1997) - from $1.00

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