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Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 304 in Publisher: HarperPress A bold and illiant of debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats. named after Russian com
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‘A very funny novel combining schadenfreude and belly laughs. Just don’t let Wiles flat-sit for you’ Independent
‘This is a terrific first novel, written with a very engaging deadpan wit, and an understated sense of the absurd.’ Kate Saunders, The Times
‘Ingenious ... his story has something in common, in terms of manic sensitivity, with Edgar Allan Poes’ The Tell-Tale Heart ... a smart and polished debut’ Daily Telegraph
‘This novel acquires the queasy allure of a cliff edge, the sense of impending catastrophe becoming strangely compelling ... addictive and rather clever, too’ Daily Mail
‘Funny, beguiling and quietly profound; a wonderfully well-crafted debut’ TLS
“A nicely turned satire on the notion that the path to spiritual contentment lies in a pristine set of polished wooden floorboards ... Wiles has an eye for beauty, but an even more impressive eye for ugliness ... a novel full of impeccably stylish writing” Guardian
‘Wiles is a talent to watch’ The Spectator
‘Dark and funny in equal measures ... a debut as crisp, slick and polished as a well-cared-for wooden floor’ Scotland on Sunday
Will Wiles is senior editor of Icon, the monthly architecture and design magazine. This is his first novel.
Website: www.willwiles.blogspot.com
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- PublisherWilliam Collins
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0007431260
- ISBN 13 9780007431267
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 304 pages. price labels marks on front, edge tanning, otherwise Near Fine:CARE OF WOODEN FLOORSBy Will Wi lesHarperPress, UK, 2012ISBN 978000743126 7sml trade pb, 304ppVERY GOOD: price labels mar ks on front, edge tanning, otherwise near-newA bold a nd brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice.Oska r is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variatio ns on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian compo sers, in an Eastern European city. But this book isn't really abo ut Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the t ask of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, be autiful apartment. Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of surreally detailed notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well.Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and f arcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It's about a friends hip between two men who don't know each other very well. It's abo ut alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It's about the q uest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors. Seller Inventory # 1105i
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