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How I Met My Wife and Other Stories by Coleridge, Nicholas is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is How I Met My Wife and Other Stories about?

A collection of fourteen stories containing a broad cast of amusing characters involved in adventures which are by turns funny, ingenious and moving. It took me six years to write these fourteen short stories. Because I have always had a job working in the urgent world of magazines, they were mostly written on holiday, which partly explains why nine of them are set abroad. But looking back at my longhand manuscripts, I now notice a peculiar thing. Few of the stories were actually written in the foreign countries in which they are set. I see that I was writing The Man Who Loved Driving, a story set in Turkey, from the improbable vantage point of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The Big Game Hunters of Detroit, which mostly takes place near Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, was written in Tuscany. The Swaffham Madonna, set in Tuscany, was written while driving across Turkey. Lucky Beggars, which is a story about an English couple with small children on holiday in Sri Lanka, I wrote in Sri Lankas maximum security jail in Colombo, where I had been hilariously imprisoned on suspicion of being an international Tamil terrorist spy. I am still grateful to the Governor of Colombo prison who e

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Author

Coleridge, Nicholas

Publisher

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781448149896

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories