| Edition |
Vintage International edition. |
| Description |
245 pages ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 1988. |
| Awards |
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1989 |
| Summary |
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence. |
| Subject |
Butlers -- England -- Fiction.
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Upper class -- England -- Fiction.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Butlers. (OCoLC)fst00843075
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Upper class. (OCoLC)fst01162136
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
Domestics England Fiction |
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England Fiction |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction.
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Love stories.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0679731725 (pbk.) |
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9780679731726 (pbk.) |
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