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Honey for the Bears by Anthony Burgess · Booklabria

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Honey for the Bears

MysteryAction & Adventure

Honey for the Bears

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First published: 1963
Editions: 24 in 3 languages

Synopsis

On a trip to Leningrad, English antique dealer Paul Hussey finds it more difficult than he expected to sell twenty dozen dresses on the black market. Meanwhile his wife Belinda, who is coming to terms with her latent lesbianism, has disappeared into a Soviet hospital.

Subjects: Mystery
Action & Adventure
Travel
Sexual behavior
British
Russia
Set in: Russia
Soviet Union
Time: 1960s

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24 in 3 languages

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English19 French3 Russian1

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