Favorite Books of 2010
O's top picks take us from the trenches of World War II to forbidden love in Britain to an apocalyptic New York future.
O, The Oprah Magazine | June 18, 2010
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By Helen Simonson 368 pages; Random House The shy romance between a retired British officer and a local Pakistani shopkeeper is the main plotline of Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. But this delightful debut novel is as much a gently p.c. look at the British class system tucked inside a sly comedy of manners as it is a love story. Curmudgeonly Major Ernest Pettigrew is a widower bewildered by the ways of the modern world, personified largely by his insufferably social-climbing, metrosexual adult son... Read more |
