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211 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780940322264
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Publication date: Not specified
Description
This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, se...
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211 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780940322264
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Publication date: Not specified
Description
This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, se...