WEEKEND
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WEEKEND (ebook)

WILLIAM MCILVANNEY

$251.00
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CANONGATE BOOKS
ISBN:
9781782111962
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Epublication content package
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Inglés
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Si

In a Victorian mansion hotel on a Scottish island, a group of English Literature lecturers and students from Glasgow gather for a residential weekend. The weekend proves to be a major turning point in the emotional lives of several people - just not quite in the way any of them expected.

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