by JohnLanchester (Author), John Lanchester (Author)
One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. It is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life - whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?
Format: paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published:
ISBN 10: 0571294863
ISBN 13: 9780571294862
Book Overview: The perfect companion to Capital, Mr Phillips is John Lanchester's tale of a businessman's life unraveling in a day.