The Waitress Was New
A veteran waiter is set adrift when his café closes its doors.
A veteran waiter is set adrift when his café closes its doors.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780977857692 (0977857697)
ASIN: 9780977857692
Publish date: 01-02-2008
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Pages no: 117
Edition language: English
The Book Report: Over the course of three days, fifty-six-year-old barman Pierre's life at Le Cercle cafe goes from six-year-long trudge towards retirement to unemployment as his creep of a midlife-crisis-ridden boss apparently abandons wife and business for the arms of a younger woman. Said wife ev...
Reminiscent of Remains of the Day, The Waitress Was New takes us into the mind of an aging waiter in his last few good years as a working man. He has many years of experience with the world and he has become a philosopher, a psychologist of the best sort, almost a seer, able to predict with surprisi...
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