By Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN-10: 0307739449
ISBN-13: 9780307739445
CORDUROY MANSIONS - e-book 2
In the Corduroy Mansions sequence of novels, set in London’s hip Pimlico local, we meet a solid of fascinating eccentrics, together with probably the world’s such a lot smart terrier, who make their domestic in a good-looking, notwithstanding just a little dilapidated, condominium block.
The moment installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s most recent cherished sequence follows the additional adventures of Freddie de l. a. Hay, Pimlico terrier, and the splendidly motley staff of his fellow citizens within the elegantly crumbling London mansion block, Corduroy Mansions.
A pair of recent Age operators has decided that Terence Moongrove’s property is the correct position for his or her Centre for Cosmological reports. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has made up our minds to symbolize a guy who's writing a ebook approximately his time “hanging out” with the abominable snowman. And our small, hairy, perpetually mind-blowing dogs hero, Freddie de l. a. Hay, has been recruited through MI6 to infiltrate a Russian secret agent ring. remember that, the opposite denizens of Corduroy Mansions have problems with their very own. yet them all might be addressed with the wit, allure, and perception into the foibles of the human situation that experience develop into the hallmark of this actually peerless storyteller.
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Howls Iggy Pop, and the murderous guitar of the Stooges’ TV Eye kicks in, as Phreedom Messenger opens up the throttle on the bike and roars out of her pit stop on the way to hell. w hor e of b a by l on , qu e e n of h e av e n And Inanna continued on her way toward the underworld. She journeyed from ancient Sumer up the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, through the whole of Babylon and into Hittite Haran. She traveled into Canaan with the Habiru who called her Ishtar. She went with them into Egypt and they called her Ashtaroth when she returned, leaving behind only a memory, the myth of Isis.
Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” And she’s close. She can feel reality stretch thin around her, like the world itself is only a skin, translucent, tenuous, the Vellum rippling underneath what’s real, underneath, beyond, behind. She’s followed the path her brother’s ripped through time, pitched back and forward in his wake, cresting the waves and working her way inward to the source, the impact zone, where he broke through, like a comet smashing into the ocean.
And the beaded curtain rattles as she pushes through it into the dark room where the woman in the veil looks up and pauses in her work, a buzzing tattooist’s needle in her hand. And there’s another hand, grabbing at her arm, the assistant’s. And when she entered the seventh gate, from her body the royal robe was removed. ” Inanna asked. “Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” asks Phreedom. “I said, you can’t go in. ” “She’ll see me,” Phreedom says. NAKED AND BOWED LOW Naked and bowed low, Inanna entered the throne room of Eresh of the Greater Earth, who arose.
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