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'Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems.
'Then a business proposition comes his way - a strange exercise in corporate PR that will require him to spend a week driving from London to a remote retail outlet on the Shetland Isles. Setting out with an open mind, good intentions and a friendly voice on his SatNav for company, Maxwell finds that this journey soon takes a more serious turn, and carries him not only to the furthest point of the United Kingdom, but into some of the deepest and darkest corners of his own past.
'In his sparkling and hugely enjoyable new book Jonathan Coe reinvents the picaresque novel for our time.' (From the publisher's website.)
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This novel by British author Jonathan Coe is included in AustLit as part of the book is set in Australia.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Off the Shelf : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 August 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim 2010 single work novel
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Off the Shelf : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 7 August 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim 2010 single work novel
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cUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cAustralia,c