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The Product: ISBN: 9780141044941 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780141044941 Author(s): Marina Lewycka Format: Paperback Year: 2013 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: 132 x 27 x 198 (w x l x h) Pages: 384

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Description: Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths...'Various Pets Alive and Dead' is the wonderfully funny fourth novel from Marina Lewycka, author of the bestselling 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian'. For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world. They didn't. What they did do was give their children a terror of radicalism, dirt, cooking rotas and poverty. Their daughter Clara wants nothing less conformist than her own, clean bathroom. Their son Serge hides the awkward fact that he's a banker earning loadsamoney. So when Doro and Marcus spring a surprise on their kids - just as the world is rocked in ways they always wished for - the family is forced to confront some thorny truths about themselves...'Wonderfully funny ...a dizzy, eye-watering treat ...Lewycka is somewhere between Hilary Mantel in her satirical mode and Sue Townsend'. ('Independent'). 'Thank heavens for Marina Lewycka whose 'Various Pets Alive and Dead' made me laugh at least once in every chapter ...The warmth of its tone, its zest, its blend of quirky, humane comedy and intellectual seriousness make this a novel to treasure'. ('New Statesman'). 'Marina Lewycka's latest novel is wonderfully funny with moments of pure farce in the best tradition of social satire ...this inventive and witty book fizzes along from beginning to end'. ('Daily Express'). Marina Lewycka was born in Kie