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The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim / Jonathan Coe.

Author/creator Coe, Jonathan
Format Book and Print
Edition1st U.S. ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Description314 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Losers--Fiction.
Divorced men--Fiction.
Middle-aged men--Fiction.
Failure (Psychology)--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Automobile travel--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Abstract Maxwell Sim feels he has no meaningful connection to anyone in his life. Trying to get out of this rut, Max quits his job as a customer service employee at a local department store. He accepts a job to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the remote Shetland Islands as part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental hygiene company with the slogan, "We reach furthest." Things don't go as planned and Max makes some impromptu stops to a few of the important people in his life. These are cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward. Max eventually finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of the GPS system ("Emma"). Max begins to wonder if he lacks the ability to establish actual relationships.
General note"Originally published in Great Britain by Viking Penguin Books Ltd., London, in 2010"--T.p. verso.
LCCN 2010035997
ISBN9780307594815
ISBN0307594815

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Joyner General Stacks PR6053.O26 T47 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold
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