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Mr. Phillips (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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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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