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Mr Phillips
Author: John Lanchester
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Retail Price: | $19.99 |
Betabooks Price | $15.99 |
ISBN: 9780571294862
Format: Paperback
Published: February 2013
Published By: Faber
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Published: February 2013
Published By: Faber
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Product Description
The perfect companion to Capital, this is John Lanchester's tale of a businessman's life unraveling in a day.The perfect companion to Capital, this is John Lanchester's tale of a businessman's life unraveling in a day.One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city -but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life -whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work.
So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?