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Gentleman Jim [Hardcover]

Raymond Briggs
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  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape (7 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224085247
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224085243
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 281,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Sunday Express

`Briggs's manipulation of the impact of bureaucracy on the innocent is both hilarious and Kafka-esque...'

The Observer, Rachel Cooke

`Briggs is not only very much alive; he's also more alive to the world than any other old git...'

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Gentleman Briggs! 18 May 2007
Format:Hardcover
I have a feeling I read this as a child, at some stage, and can remember it being a great read. Sometime last year I had the urge to read it again, and I wasn't wrong first time round!

It's only a simple book but you can't beat Raymond Briggs's illustrations and imagination. There is something very unique about his style and the book itself. If you, or your children, have seen or, ideally, read the Snowman than I can pretty much garuntee you will like this book.

Now, I admit, it is a little sad towards the end and I can honestly say I've never felt truely sorry for a character in a book, apart from Jim. He tries so hard to make things good, is intentions are top notch but he isn't that bright has a few problems getting exactly what he wants.

A great and inticing read!!
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Format:Hardcover
Gentleman Jim
A simple story about a simple man - touching, as with others of Raymond Briggs' stories e.g. the film "When the Wind Blows" AOD
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By A. Foxley TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
I stumbled across this after hearing a Radio 4 adaptation - and to my delight, the book is even better. A daydreaming lavatory attendant dreams of a more exciting life for himself and his wife, but without 'the Levels', as he calls them, he struggles to break free of his rather mundane existence. Heartwarming and sad in equal measure, this is Briggs at his very best. Jim is one of his most engaging characters - not especially bright, and with only a limited understanding of the world around him, but a romantic idealist who means well despite his behaviour. A brilliant picture book for adults, in the same vein as 'Ethel and Ernest' and 'When the Wind Blows'.
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