Everything and More: A Novel of Shopping and Terrorism

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Synopsis
&“A darkly comic cornucopia set in a mythic London department store&” from the author of Hunters & Gatherers, &“a comic satirist of biting precision&” (Kirkus Reviews). &“Powered by a fast-moving plot, this latest exuberant fantasy concerns a department store, a female employee-turned-terrorist upon whom the reclusive proprietor exercises his droit de seigneur, and a porter who stumbles upon the hidden tunnels in which the building&’s architect entombed himself in the 1930s. Nicholson has a wonderful ear for the unintentionally funny clichés of modern speech and manners.&” —The Sunday Telegraph &“An off-beat tale with a sardonic edge, Nicholson&’s brightly lit black comedy takes place in Haden Brothers, a monstrous London department store that is a combination of Harrod&’s, Kafka&’s Castle and the Marx Brothers&’ The Big Store . . . An exhaustively entertaining farce.&” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) &“It is the black humor and the satire that win us over to Nicholson&’s novels. Haden&’s sexual romps, Chalmers&’ desire to recreate Vietnam in the store, the greed of both customers and management and poor little Charlie Mayhew who finally discovers his art form (but how pitiful it is)—no-one is safe from Nicholson&’s savagery. Read it and join Charlie, Anton, Arnold Haden and Edward Zander in a trip through the bowels of consumer society.&” —The Modern Novel &“Nicholson&’s minor characters—slimy personnel manager Derek Snell, paramilitary security chief Ray Chalmers, Anton Heath, the anarchist-wanna-be foreman of the work-averse porters, and Vita&’s kleptomaniac mother, who worked for the store herself years ago—are small Dickensian gems, and Nicolson&’s clockwork emporium provides a vivid setting for this very British yet universal comedy of modern manners and morals.&” —Booklist
Copyright:
1999

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
249 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781468305357
Related ISBNs:
9780879517106
Publisher:
ABRAMS, Inc.
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Geoff Nicholson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Humor
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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