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Author:

Moore, George, 1852-1933. 31138

Title:

Albert Nobbs / by George Moore ; foreword by Glenn Close.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 98 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Waiters--Dublin--Dublin--Fiction.
Gender identity--Fiction.
Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Notes:

"'Albert Nobbs' first appeared in A story-teller's holiday by George Moore (1918). It was later published in Celibate lives by George Moore (1927)"--T.p. verso.

Summary:

Set in a posh hotel in nineteenth-century Dublin, Albert Nobbs is the story of an unassuming waiter hiding a shocking secret. Forced one night to share his bed with an out-of-town laborer, Albert Nobbs's carefully constructed facade nearly implodes when the stranger discovers his true identity--that he's acutally a woman.

ISBN:

0143122525
9780143122524 (pbk.) :

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)