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Mr Phillips
de John Lanchester
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399146040
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146046
- Librería
-
Arlington, Virginia, United States
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Marian Wood, April 2000. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright with just a hint of wear at spine ends and corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 291 pages.
This sardonic novel takes place over the course of a single unexceptional day. Mr. Phillips, a middle-aged London accountant, was fired on Friday but didn't have the courage to tell his wife. So on Monday, he leaves his house as if going to work, then spends the day wandering around London before finally heading home. Mr. Phillips's thoughts form the heart of the novel--ironic and philosophical musings on work, sex, aging, money, identity, fame and modern society in general.
This sardonic novel takes place over the course of a single unexceptional day. Mr. Phillips, a middle-aged London accountant, was fired on Friday but didn't have the courage to tell his wife. So on Monday, he leaves his house as if going to work, then spends the day wandering around London before finally heading home. Mr. Phillips's thoughts form the heart of the novel--ironic and philosophical musings on work, sex, aging, money, identity, fame and modern society in general.
Sinopsis
Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is far from ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips was summarily sacked. Unable to deal with this disaster--unable even to tell his own wife--Mr. Phillips rises at his usual hour and prepares himself for the job he no longer has. As he wanders the streets of London, what he sees triggers memories. Gradually a picture develops of a decent man who, only days before, knew exactly who and what he was--husband, home-owner, father, valued employee--and on this day wonders who and what he can become. Using the bits and pieces of one man's past, John Lanchester has drawn a fully dimensional life and, in the process, made in Mr. Phillips an Everyman for our times.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books of the World
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- RWARE0000000180
- Título
- Mr Phillips
- Autor
- John Lanchester
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399146040
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146046
- Editorial
- G. P. Putnam's Sons / Marian Wood
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- April 2000
- Palabras clave
- fiction, unemployment, London, Britain, United Kingdom
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction; Humor, Comedy, Satire, Funny stuff; Britain;
- Size
- 8vo
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