Mr. Phillips (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140298369)

Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is far from ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips was summarily sacked. Unable to deal with this disaster--unable even to tell his own wife--Mr. Phillips rises at his usual hour and prepares himself for the job he no longer has. As he wanders the streets of London, what he sees triggers memories. Gradually a picture develops of a decent man who, only days before, knew exactly who and what he was--husband, home-owner, father, valued employee--and on this day wonders who and what he can become.

Using the bits and pieces of one man's past, John Lanchester has drawn a fully dimensional life and, in the process, made in Mr. Phillips an Everyman for our times.

Author: John Lanchester
ISBN-10: 0140298363
ISBN-13: 9780140298369
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.09w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
BookPage 04/01/2001 pg. 20
New York Times 04/15/2001 pg. 28