The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro. [print]
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TextSeries: Vintage internationalPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, (c)1990.Edition: 1st Vintage international edDescription: 245 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394251342
- 0679731725
- 9780394251349
- 9780679731726
- PR6059.R463 1990
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| Reference (Library Use ONLY) | G. Allen Fleece Library Reference (1st floor - front of library) | Non-fiction | PR6059.S5 R46 1990 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001554209 | ||
| Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) | G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor | Non-fiction | PR6059.S5 R46 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31923001426119 |
"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1989"--T.p. verso.
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.
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