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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-05 Language: English Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe-Spies. girls and an Englishman abroad Trust no one.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 Worlds Fair of the century.As soon as he arrives. Thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal. gigantic Atomium. which stands at the heart of this brave new world. and by Anneke. a lovely Flemish hostess But Thomass new-found sense of freedom comes at a price:. two British spies are following him. For fans of Jonathan Coes classic comic bestsellers What a Carve Up! and The Rotters Club. this hilarious new novel. which is set in the Mad Men period of the mid 50s. will also be loved by readers of Nick Ho...
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Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep,The Rotters' Club and Number 11.
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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 date2013
- ISBN 10 0670923729
- ISBN 13 9780670923724
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- Number of pages266
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Book Description Condition: Muy bueno. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, the lovely Flemish hostess who meets him off his plane. But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: the Cold War is at its height, the mischievous Belgians have placed the American and Soviet pavilions right next to each other - and why is he being followed everywhere by two mysterious emissaries of the British Secret Service? Expo 58 may represent a glittering future, both for Europe and for Thomas himself, but he will soon be forced to decide where his public and private loyalties really lie.Returning to the acidic humour of What a Carve Up and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe's new novel stirs elements of Ealing comedy, Hitchcockian thriller and political farce into an incisive, affecting portrait of Britain as it stands at a postwar crossroads, faced with crucial choices between America and Europe, the future and the past.EAN: 9780670923724 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: Expo 58Autor: Coe, Jonathan Editorial: Penguin Books, Limited. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-01-11-ac83000d
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Book Description Condition: Bueno. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War. As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, the lovely Flemish hostess who meets him off his plane. But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: the Cold War is at its height, the mischievous Belgians have placed the American and Soviet pavilions right next to each other - and why is he being followed everywhere by two mysterious emissaries of the British Secret Service? Expo 58 may represent a glittering future, both for Europe and for Thomas himself, but he will soon be forced to decide where his public and private loyalties really lie.Returning to the acidic humour of What a Carve Up and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe's new novel stirs elements of Ealing comedy, Hitchcockian thriller and political farce into an incisive, affecting portrait of Britain as it stands at a postwar crossroads, faced with crucial choices between America and Europe, the future and the past.EAN: 9780670923724 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: Expo 58Autor: Coe, Jonathan Editorial: Penguin Books, Limited. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-03-12-5a7084bf
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