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A stunning debut novel set in the murky worlds of telephone salesmen and supermarket shelf-stackers.
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David Szalay was born in Canada in 1974 and moved to London the following year. Though his parents insist this was a temporary arrangement, he is still there. Since limping through an English degree at Oxford University, he has tried his hand at a number of things, including film-making (his debut, The Old Soldier, was dubbed ‘the worst film ever made’) and photography (only paid assignment – a wedding, the couple since divorced). He spent a number of years in telesales, during which time he wrote several radio plays for the BBC. London and the South-East is his first novel. He lives in London.
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“[A] dark, antic satire. . . . Szalay is a barbed observer of office life, and his study is most scathing when inspecting the perils of extracting self-worth from work.”―The New Yorker
“London and the South-East is a stunningly accomplished debut novel. Szalay's moods, tones and range of situations manage to be scabrously funny or desperately grim. . . . It is here, in this brilliant bittersweet tragicomedy, Szalay first showcased his prodigious capabilities.”―Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Watch for many twists and turns in this fiendishly plotted page-turner.”―Library Journal, starred review
“[A] devastatingly observant novel. . . . Written with intense psychological acuity and inventive detail.”―Publishers Weekly
“[A] nuanced portrait of desire and its discontents. . . . Szalay writes with real heart about his protagonist―a man lost in the middle of his own existence.”―Kirkus Reviews
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0224081586
- ISBN 13 9780224081580
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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