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The British author of The Debt to Pleasure tells the tale of Mr. Phillips, an ordinary Londoner who sees the world with completely different eyes when his safe, routine existence is shattered after he loses his job of fifteen years. Reprint.

"[T]here is a vein of the kind of lively, inventive observations and digressions which made THE DEBT TO PLEASURE so enjoyable. The book is filled with satisfyingly epigrammatic one-liners....Lanchester has great verbal facility, but he rarely lets fluency become glibness....[A]t its best the book vividly conveys a certain level of London reality rarely encountered in fiction, and confirms John Lanchester as a broader and more flexible talent than might previously have been supposed."

Christopher Tayler, Times Literary Supplement, 01/21/2000

"[I]t is exceptionally funny and often astoundingly intelligent--but it is quizzical....MR. PHILLIPS is a genuine contemporary philosophical novel, a comedy of manners of thought....With its virtuosity of style, its lack of casual sentimentality, and its easy way with the comic problems of philosophy, MR. PHILLIPS is a contemporary TRISTAM SHANDY."

Adam Phillips, London Review of Books, 03/02/2000

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