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Mr Phillips - John Lanchester

Description: ISBN 0571201717 / Author: John Lanchester / Genre: Fiction / Mr Phillips is an accountant who lies in bed with his wife and dreams of other women. When he loses his job and tells no one, his first day out of work takes in a false journey to the office, a stroll with a ... more

Mr Phillips - John Lanchester ... pornographer in Battersea Park, a blue film, and a bank robbery in Knightsbridge.

Newest Review: ... and French farmers could afford to keep their fields uneconomically small and make special cheese." Yes, we get that, ... more

... Mr Phillips. Your new job (incidentally, have I mentioned that he' ;s been fired last Friday afternoon after nearly three decades of work at a private firm?) could easily be as Romano Prodi's successor! Mr Phillips thinks, lives and breathes as an accountant. He lives life in terms of probability and double entries (not double entendres, regrettably...) and triple-decker calculations that would have made Einstein proud. Well, not pr...more

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Mr Phillips - John Lanchester: My meeting with grass ... and how I watched it grow for hour ... (1214 words)
by chris105 - written on 19/07/01 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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I want you to know about this person I've met recently. He's nothing to write home (or, indeed, to dooyoo) about. He's as antiseptic and inchoate as they come. His name is Mr Phillips. Don't you just hate the name, Mr Phillips? Why couldn't he use his first name, Victor, like the rest of us? Or at the very least, Victor Phillips? That would already sound much better. I could survive a meeting in a pub or a park with a Victor Phillips, but dear God no not with a Mr Phillips, especially one who ever so infuriatingly insists on referring to himself throughout as Mr Phillips. Mr pedantic, more like it. Accountancy I don't understand but have ...

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