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Cheese
£7.99
ISBN
9781846884160
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Willem Elsschot's Cheese combines comedy and pathos in its depiction of a man trying to progress bey
When Frans Laarmans, a feckless clerk at an Antwerp shipyard, is offered a job importing Edam cheese from Holland, he meekly accepts, despite his loathing of the product.
His head soon fills with ambition and hope to be accepted by his brother s posh friends. But when the first shipment arrives, he has no idea what to do with the ten thousand red-skinned cheeses, and spends most of his time looking for a pedestal desk for his office instead of selling.
This superb tragicomedy offers a poignant and at the same time humorous account of what happens when a mediocre man gets caught between his ambition and his utter ineptitude.
Weight | 454.000000 |
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Author | Elsschot, Willem |
Availability | IP |
Department | Literature |
Format | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781846884160 |
Pages | 300 |
Published | 21/02/2017 |
Publisher | Alma Books |
Section | Literature |
Size Unfolded | 128x198mm |
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