Mr. Phillips (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Lanchester
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1995
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Victor Phillips, Mrs. Phillips, Martin Phillips, Thomas Phillips, Martha Erith, Clarissa Colinford, Fortescue
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Robbery or robbers, Unemployment or unemployed workers, London, 1990’s, Middle age, Accountants or accounting, Pornography, England
- Locales: London, England
John Lanchester made an auspicious debut with his widely praised novel The Debt to Pleasure (1996). This sardonic satire featuring a witty serial killer was translated into twenty-two languages and left Lanchester’s readers looking forward to his second novel. Mr. Phillips has few characteristics in common with its predecessor, however, focusing on a considerably less flamboyant protagonist. Victor Phillips is a fifty-year-old accountant who has just lost his job after twenty-six years with Wilkins and Co. Unable to tell his wife and two sons about this disruption in his...
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