01873cam a2200337 4500 262171901 TxAuBib 20160512120000.0 140605t20142013||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2014022075 9781410472922 1410472922 9781594139833 large print : trade paperback 1594139830 large print : trade paperback (OCoLC)881146245 TxAuBib eng swe Backman, Fredrik. A man called Ove [Large Print] / Fredrik Backman. Large Print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2014] ©2013. 477 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Translated from the Swedish. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations. 20160512. Older men Fiction. Neighbors Fiction. Neighborhoods Fiction. Mainstream.