Hmm... this actually doesn't look like my normal fare... but I like to branch once in a while, and I was on a buying spree at the rummage sale last weekend... bad me. This is what the book jacket says:

Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or less), and the cliffs of Dover actually are white. Now imagine that the principal national treasures - from Stonehenge to Buckingham Palace - are grouped together on the Isle of Wight. This is precisely the vision that Sir Jack Pitman seeks to realize: a "destination" where tourists can find replicas of Big Ben, Wembly Stadium, the National Gallery, Princess Di's grave, and even Harrods (conveniently located inside the Tower of London), and visit them all in the course of a weekend. As this land of make-believe takes on its own comic and horrible reality, Barnes delights us with a novel that is at once a philosophical inquiry, a burst of mischief, a hilarious romp, and a moving elegy about authenticity and nationality.

RELEASE NOTES:

Gone by the end of practice from the lower locker room.

My 6 years old daughter found it at YMCA!! We both thought it would be an exciting thing to read and pass to somebody else.. I like that idea, I was even thinking to leave it overseas when we will be traveling next month, but I'm a little bit concern if they know what to do with it, so probably we leave it at other place. BUT FIRST IT HAS TO BE READ! Thanks whoever left it there!

CAUGHT IN PALATINE ILLINOIS USA