The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim

Author:   Jonathan Coe
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
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9780241967775


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 June 2014
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Format:   Paperback
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Maxwell Sim could be any of us. He could be you. He's about to have a mid-life crisis (though he doesn't know it yet). He'll be found in his car in the north of Scotland, half-naked and alone, suffering hypothermia, with a couple of empty whiskey bottles and a boot full of toothbrushes. It's a far cry from a restaurant in Sydney, where his story starts. But then Maxwell Sim has, unknowingly, got a long way to go. If he knew now about the toothbrushes, or the dead man on the aeroplane, or his father and the folded photograph, or Poppy the Adultery Facilitator, or even about Emma's lovely, fading voice, then perhaps he'd stay where he was - hiding from his destiny. But Max knows none of it. And nor do you - at least not yet . . . 'Classic Coe.' Vogue 'Witty, unexpected and curiously unsettling. Coe carries it off with empathy, comedy and a ventriloquist's ear for idiom.' Literary Review 'A satirical tour de force that brilliantly captures the spirit of our age.' Red 'Masterly, highly engaging. Coe's eye for the details of contemporary life remains as sharp as ever.' Daily Mail 'Exceptionally moving.' Guardian

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Author:   Jonathan Coe
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.245kg
ISBN:  

9780241967775


ISBN 10:   0241967775
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   26 June 2014
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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As funny and as well-written as you'd expect. It is archly and artfully structured too * Prospect * Cunningly plotted, extremely well-written and very, very funny * Daily Telegraph *


Cunningly plotted, extremely well-written and very, very funny * Daily Telegraph * As funny and as well-written as you'd expect. It is archly and artfully structured too * Prospect *


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Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His novels include Rotters, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death and What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Itranger.The House of Sleep won the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award for 1997.

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