The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim
$27.69
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2014
Summary
A lonely toothbrush salesman goes on a journey into the wilderness and a descent into a mad world, in this comic and surreal novel from one of our greatest British writers.
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in, even with 74 friends on Facebook. He’s not even sure whether he’s got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way, involving a long journey to the Shetland…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241967775 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241967775 |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Cunningly plotted, extremely well-written and very, very funny
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 *
About The Author
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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