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Jeune retraité à la vie bien rangée, malmené par une épouse exaspérée par le moindre de ses gestes, Harold Fry reçoit un matin une lettre de Queenie, une vieille amie perdue de vue qui lui annonce sa mort prochaine. Une lettre à laquelle Harold s'empresse de répondre mais qu'il ne postera jamais. Mû par l'intuition qu'il doit remettre cette lettre en main propre à son amie et que, tant qu'il marchera, elle vivra, sans boussole ni carte, sans téléphone ni chaussures de marche, Harold entame une traversée de près de 1 000 km à travers l'Angleterre. L'occasion pour lui de réfléchir sur sa vie : son enfance douloureuse entre un père alcoolique et une mère absente, sa relation avec sa femme, Maureen, et leur première rencontre, ses rendez-vous manqués avec son fils David, sa vie professionnelle ratée, l'alcool, Queenie... Le destin d'un homme ordinaire prêt à traverser à pied un pays tout entier sur la seule certitude qu'il peut par ce geste sauver son amie.
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Pilgrimage, Walking, Men, Fiction, Letters, Humorous fiction, Self-acceptance, Roman, Englisch, Married people, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, England, fiction, Fiction, humorous, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Middle-aged men, Redemption, Littérature anglaise, Pensionärer, Brev, Cancer, Döden, Personlig utveckling, Chang pian xiao shuoPeople
Harold Fry, Maureen Fry, Queenie Hennessy, David FryPlaces
Kingsbridge, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Bath, Exeter, England, Great Britain, ying guoTimes
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The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry: a novel
2015, Anchor Canada
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Die unwahrscheinliche Pilgerreise des Harold Fry: Roman
Apr 24, 2014, FISCHER Taschenbuch
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Yi ge ren de chao sheng: The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2013, Beijing lian he chu ban gong si
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
Dec 05, 2012, Wheeler Publishing
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La lettre qui allait changer le destin d'Harold Fry arriva le mardi.
Sep 20, 2012, France Loisirs
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2012, Random House
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Harold Fry has recently retired and now, he doesn't do very much. Even mowing the lawn, like his wife Maureen tells him to do, seems too much work for him. When, one day, he recieves a lettre in a pink envelope, this lazyness changes. In it, his collegue from long time ago, Queenie Hennessy, tells him she is going to die soon from a cancer in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold, at first helpless, decides not only to write her back, but to walk the whole way from Kingsbridge to Berwick-upon-Tweed.
During his walk, he will not only meet a lot of people, listen to their story, but also make a journey into his own past, his relation to both Maureen and Quennie and his son David. He is walking to save Queenie, but is he also saving himself?
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