The Grim Pig
by Gordon, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771033974
- ISBN 13
- 9780771033971
- Seller
-
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Ships From Canada New in fine dust jacket dust jacket as some sun discoloration on the bordres, oherwise this book is New Sewn binding Cloth over boards 272 p Audience: General/trade ** Was stamped for An entry for the "'"Stephen Leacock Award"'" for humour for 2002 ** Review This is a wonderfully funny book, with some serious undertones Reading it, I was delighted to learn that life in the newsroom today is just as bizarre as it was when I was a reporter, long ago William Weintraub, author of Why Rock the Boat? and City Unique The Grim Pig isn t grim at all It is chortle-and-snort-out-loud funny The bizarre conversations between MacVeigh and the other members of his task force are brilliant The constant use of unfinished sentences had me peering over my shoulder for possible conspirators Moira L MacKinnon, The Hamilton Spectator Gordon, an Ottawa Citizen columnist, shows that he is a worthy Canadian successor to Evelyn Waugh, whose Scoop (1938) set the standard for the po
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8632459871
- Title
- The Grim Pig
- Author
- Gordon, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0771033974
- ISBN 13
- 9780771033971
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2001
Terms of Sale
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