The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author: Kazuo IshiguroEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1990-09-12
ISBN: 0679731725
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: JUST JEEVES
Summary: 5 Stars
Pip pip wot hey. No really it's not like that. This is pretty much Jeeves without Bertie. No Wooster makes Jeeves a dull old boy. Not really so much dull as dignified. If you enjoy PG Woodhouse you will probably like this. It is a fine volume that I read avidly. TODO
Summary of The Remains of the Day
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.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.
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