- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Viking; First Edition edition (14 May 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670831913
- ISBN-13: 978-0670831913
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,354,917 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A brilliantly orchestrated slanging-match' Independent
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Oliver, a successful British philosopher, spends the summer with his ex-wife and his children, as well as her new husband, while he writes his autobiography. This he does sitting in the airing cupboard, where a well-placed flue carries up the sounds of conversation in the kitchen.
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This book's clever central conceit is to take two flawed narrators (one more flawed than the other) and use them to give a slyly funny and unflinching (but somehow warm) portrait of a doomed marriage. Deceptively simple, effortlessly stylish, this book is easy to read and very absorbing.
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It took me quite a while to get into this book, but it turned out to be quite an interesting read. The philosophy involved amused me, with Olivers theories. The plot of the life of Oliver was slightly irritating as he wasn't a character you could realate to and especially like, however the ending was good, if not a little sharp. The thing I liked most though was the element of philioshy, without that, i would have totally lost interest.
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