The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Vintage internationalPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, c1988. Description: 245 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 0679731725 ; 9780679731726 ; 0394251342Subject(s): Country homes -- Fiction | Household employees -- Fiction | England -- FictionDDC classification: 823.914 LOC classification: PR6059.S5 | R46 1990Online resources: WorldCat details | E-book full-text Summary: Summary:
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 Read more...
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Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU E-book | Non-fiction | 823.914 ISR 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | ||||
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Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section | Fiction | 823.914 ISR 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C-1 | Not For Loan | 3250 |
"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.
Summary:
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 Read more...
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