Overview

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.
ISBN-13

9781852425845

ISBN-10

1852425849

Weight

0.25 Pounds

Dimensions

5.10 x 0.40 x 7.70 In

List Price

$14.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

160 pages

Publisher

Serpent's Tail

Published On

1998-10-01


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