Mr Phillips

Mr Phillips

by JohnLanchester (Author)

Synopsis

Mr Phillips is a married accountant. He prepares for work, but this is the day on which he will chat with a pornographer, stalk a TV mini-celebrity, have lunch with a record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. Why is Mr Phillips not at work?

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 2
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 08 Jan 2001

ISBN 10: 0571201717
ISBN 13: 9780571201716

Author Bio
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, , where he is a contributing editor. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He has written three novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, and two works of non-fiction: Family Romance, a memoir; and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, a book about the global financial crisis. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is married, has two children and lives in London.