The remains of the day
1st Vintage international ed.
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Word Count
61,250 words, Guess
Page Count
245 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL62379553M
- ISBN-100679731725
- Internet Archiveremainsofday00ishi
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6059.S5 R46 1990
- LCCPR6059.S5R46 1990
Description
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
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Overview: The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving "a great gentleman." But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness" and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
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- Vintage international
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