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Title: Mr Phillips by John Lanchester ISBN: 0-14-029836-3 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.93 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A day in the lifeï
Comment: There is something very organic about John Lanchester's Mr. Phillips. The descriptions of his daily life are filled with sights, sounds, and even smells, so meticulously detailed the reader can easily put himself (whether or not you want to is another story) in Phillips' place. An accountant let go from his position due to redundancy this book is a day in Mr. Phillips' new life. Filled with sexual commentary, calculations, and the occasional adventure, it's hard to say that this is a truly original work in plot, but Lanchester creates such a clear picture you can't help but be fascinated by the inner workings of a man whose life is thrown in such disarray.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great, Once-in-a-Decade Novel
Comment: MR. PHILLIPS is a recent inductee into my personal Pantheon of great modern literature. This is a terrific - indeed, incandescent - little book about a single day in the life of a very ordinary middle-class Englishman who has just lost his job and hasn't yet broken the news to his family. There's nothing, and yet everything to this seemingly inconsequential work. It reminds us, again, that even at its bleakest, life is more comedy than tragedy. As a writer, Lanchester is, in the English way, a precisionist. Most of his conceits are so economic, sharp, original and outrageous that you read the entire book (it can be done in a few hours) shivering with pleasure and wishing that you yourself were half as talented.
Rating: 3
Summary: Shlub City, here we come
Comment: I still haven't gotten around to MRS DALLOWAY. (I'm too busy debating particle physics with Jeanette Winterson via her ouija board.) As far as I can tell, MR PHILLIPS is the fictional equivalent of the desultory "observational humor" that stand-up comedians do. (The stand-up material that invariably gets introduced with the phrase "Have you ever noticed that...?".) The main difference between this and THE DEBT TO PLEASURE seems to be that PLEASURE'S recipes have been replaced with tedious statistical calculations and sexual disquisitions.
Here's my fave line: "Karen's accent, East London verging on Essex, is sexy too, but in a more straightforwardly sluttish way. And there is something about the limitless reserves of indifference she can express, the thrilling estuarine boredness of her 'Yeah'."
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Title: The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester ISBN: 0312420366 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester ISBN: 0142003379 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble ISBN: 0156028751 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd, John Lanchester ISBN: 1590170407 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Stamboul Train: An Entertainment by Graham Greene ISBN: 0140185321 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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