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| Fillets of Plaice | 
| Author: Gerald Durrell
Publisher: Nonpareil Books
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 473941
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1567923542
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781567923544
ASIN: 1567923542
Publication Date: April 18, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Parting is such sweet sorrow... March 30, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well, I may have mangled the quote for this review's title but I am right about the rating of this book. This was such a good book that I actually felt a bit sad after turning the last page! Many of the encounters in this book of short stories shares the same wit, keen observation, and gentle spirit of My Family and Other Animals . . .then there are a few surprises. There are two chapters recalling incidents that must have been decidedly unpleasant and yet he managed to make them uproariously funny! I'd like to say more but it wouldn't be fair to go into too much detail.
 Bits and bobs left over from other work. August 4, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When his literary brother Lawerence Durrell (the Alexandra Quartet) compiled a book of stray writings he brought them together under the title "Spirit of Place" as they revolved around the mediterranean spirit. When the irrereverent younger brother Gerald decided to trawl his notes for a new book to fund his zoo in Jersey he jokingly suggested to Lawerence that he could call it "Fillets of Plaice", being a low caste version of his brothers book. The name stuck and this book contains some wonderful and evocative stories. Best of all I think are the two horror stories at the end. I never realised Gerald had such a dark side.
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