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The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro.
LIBRA PR6059.S5 R46 1993 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Butlers--England--Fiction.
- Butlers.
- Upper class--England--Fiction.
- Upper class.
- England--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Vintage international edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International, 1993.
- Summary:
- The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
- Notes:
- Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1989
- ISBN:
- 0679731725
- 9780679731726
- OCLC:
- 55080331
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