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Jonathan Coe is the author of The Winshaw Legacy and nine other novels. His many prizes include the Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize.
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“Expo 58, like Our Man in Havana and all the best comic novels, reminds us that comedy is not the sugar that makes the medicine go down. Comedy is the medicine—medicine that exists not to cure you but to make you realize, once the medicine wears off, how sick you really are.” —New York Times Book Review
“[A] rip-roaringly funny satire by Coe.” —Kirkus, Starred Review
“Like the best books of this kind, Expo 58 is funny and smart...a light, blessedly short, dry English satire.” —Booklist, Starred review
“Coe is a gifted satirist...a droll, clever novel that ends on a bittersweet note...impressive” —Publishers Weekly
“Coe’s Expo 58 is a world of fakery and illusion.” —LA Review of Books
“Expo 58 is Coe at his funny-serious best, offering idiosyncratic mixture of slapstick and profundity in a love-and-spies story set at the height of the cold war...pure enjoyment.” —Financial Times
“Brilliant and satisfying... This is entertainment of a very high order, and all the more delightful for being grounded in the more bizarre dimensions of reality, the inspiration of all the best fiction.” —Robert McCrum, The Guardian
“Delightfully funny and utterly absurd...tremendously good fun.” —The Spectator
“A rich and splendidly comic confection.” —Independent
“Masterful English novelist...Coe serves another of his absorbingly comic romps [in Expo 58].” —The Oregonian
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- Publication date2014
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The World's Fair, Belgium, 1958. Freshly arrived is mild-mannered civil servant Thomas Foley, here to ensure the British contribution - a pub called the Britannia - is no national embarrassment. But it is the height of the Cold War and the Fair is a hotbed of paranoia and deceit. With his superiors fearful of leaked secrets and defections, Thomas is spied on and directed to spy on others. Thrust into a game he barely understands, distracted by a romance which tests his marital and family loyalties to their limit, Thomas gamely tries to do the right thing - if only someone will tell him what that is . . .'Jonathan Coe hits his comic stride again.' Independent'Top notch, rollicking, more than a clever comedy.' Literary Review'A comico-serious delight, absorbs from start to finish.' Evening Standard'Delightfully funny and utterly absurd. Tremendously good fun.' Spectator London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780241966907
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. Seller Inventory # B9780241966907
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