The Remains of the Day
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Format: Book
Edition: 1st Vintage international ed.
Description: 245 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Series: Vintage International.
Subjects:
Country homes -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Country homes -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0679731725
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Ishiguro | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Fiction | Out (Due: 5/8/2024) |
F Ishiguro | Edgewood | Fiction | Held |
More Formats
"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"--Title page verso.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.9 13 16721.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1989.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.9 13 16721.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1989.