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Item specifics

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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
ISBN
9780593082423

About this product

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593082427
ISBN-13
9780593082423
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038424753

Product Key Features

Book Title
Cockroach
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Satire, Literary, Political, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Ian McEwan
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
3.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-951183
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Synopsis
A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis , centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head., A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other, from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement. Kafka meets the world of Brexit in this bitingly funny novel centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.
LC Classification Number
PR6063.C4C55 2019b

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