She also takes pity on the orphan and tries to help him. But as time passes, we see more of her softer side when she fears something bad has happened to her boss, she laments that she never got to tell her how much she means to Grace, and how much she respects her (“these things are hard to say”). She does not see any point in hiring a child at first, because she doubts he will do his job and resents having to pay him money. She can be brisk and offensive, often saying rude things without thinking about how others might react (she walks into a beauty parlor to ask someone questions, and insults the woman in the chair, by saying the beautician hangs out with a lot of vapid, shallow women). Grace tries to be a professional, and places a lot of importance on external criteria – like her diploma being an approximation of her worth, improving her typing skills (and complaining about the typewriter not working right), etc. She will often say, in the middle of a case, that his reminds her of … or I read about this… and sometimes what she has to say is based on a general stereotype from her school days (that the qualified assistants with integrity, such as her, did not get the position they wanted, because some short-skirted girl got it instead!). She also has a distinct bias when it comes toward favoring people who find worth in the career she has chosen – she thinks a Beauty Pageant contestant should win, because she is a ‘person of integrity,’ for having the same ambitions as Grace did when she was younger (wanting to attend the secretarial college). |1 .Grace filters everything through either whether she can relate to it, or if she has read about something similar. |a Number one Ladies' Dective Agency |v 1. |a McCall Smith, Alexander, |d 1948- |t Number one Ladies' Dective Agency |v 1. |a McCall Smith, Alexander, |d 1948- |t Number 1 Ladies' Dective Agency |v 1. |a Children |x Crimes against |v Fiction. |a Identity (Philosophical concept) |v Fiction. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) |v Fiction. |a Women private investigators |z Botswana |v Fiction. |a Ramotswe, Precious |c (Fictitious character) |0 |v Fiction. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives". |a This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. |a The Number one Ladies' Dective Agency |v 1. |a The Number 1 Ladies' Dective Agency |v 1. |a New York : |b Random House Large Print, |c 2011. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |h / |c Alexander McCall Smith. |a BTCTA |b eng |c BTCTA |d TEFBT |d SHM |d OCLCA |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d BDX |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCA |d OCL |d OCLCO |d OCLCA |d SPP |d JDP |d OCLCO |d OCLCA |d W8A |d OCL |d BYV
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |