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Mr. Phillips

By John Lanchester

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| Audio Cassette | 9780671775018

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Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, in the bed he has contentedly shared with his wife of almost thirty years, ready to face another ordinary working day.

Except that this day is not ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips waContinue

Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, in the bed he has contentedly shared with his wife of almost thirty years, ready to face another ordinary working day.

Except that this day is not ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips was summarily fired. Through no fault of his own, Mr. Philips has suddenly found his whole life cast into doubt.

Unable to deal with this disaster -- unable to even tell his wife -- Mr. Phillips rises at his usual hour and prepares himself, as he had done his entire working life, for the job he no longer has. Dressed for work with no work to do, he wanders the streets of London, seeing the world as if for the first time, and what he sees triggers memories. Some are improbably funny, some deeply affecting, and all gradually build a portrait of a decent man who only days before knew exactly who he was -- husband, home owner, father, valued employee -- and on on this day wonders what he can become.

With his eye for the telling detail, his ear for the commonplace speech that make each of us who we are, John Lanchester has created both a jewel of a novel and an Everyman for our times.

Critics

  • Busy doing nothing

    Mr Phillips John Lanchester Faber £9.99, pp247 Buy it at BOL In the past few years, the world of work has become one of the favourite topics for novels. In a way, it's surprising that work hasn't always been a central fact for the novel; after all, i ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Hidden virtues?

    Mr Phillips John Lanchester (Faber, £6.99) Buy it at BOL I had my reservations about this one. Lanchester's previous and first novel, The Debt to Pleasure, I had left mostly unread; there was too much of an odour of Nabokov coming off the book. Still ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Audio Cassette 6 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0671775014
  • ISBN-13: 9780671775018
  • Publisher: Audioworks
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2000
  • Dimensions: 180 mm x 100 mm x 30 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
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