The Remains of the Day
A profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading insular world in postwar England. "One of the best books of the year."-- The New York Times Book Review.
A profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading insular world in postwar England. "One of the best books of the year."-- The New York Times Book Review.
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Format: ebook
ASIN: 9780679731726
Publish date: 28-09-1990
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Fiction,
Historical
This is a reversal from my usual route since I saw the movie several years ago and not turn to the book. I should have done that first as this is an excellent book in many respects. What struck me the most is Ishiguro's ability to show so many angles of a life through a narrator with a very limited ...
Interesting. I read this book after having seen the movie many, many times over the years and having fallen in love with it. It's interesting to compare the two and see from where the movie took it's story and characters, but in some ways it was difficult to read the original. Though I heard Stevens...
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