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The growing trend for purchasing property in France, either as a main or second home, has led to a corresponding need for a book which explains the French conveyancing system for lawyers trained in... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0552999849
ISBN13:9780552999847
Release Date:October 2002
Publisher:Black Swan Books, Limited
Length:283 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"
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MacCabe - An Unrecognised Genius
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Should you have a reasonably developed sense of humour please do your absolute utmost to ignore the other review on this title. What the previous reviewer so cruelly missed was the salient purpose of this novel - to entertain. It is quite simply one of the most insightful exposes of office culture and its attendant ennui that you will ever have the fortune to read. Anyone who has ever sat in a grey, uninspiring office, situated on a grey, featureless, business park, on the periphery of a grey McTown will simply rejoice at McCabe's ability to describe the essence of this experience (outright desperation). The fact is MacCabe HAS brilliantly explored what it is to be a young man living a hopelessly average existence, but he does it with a lightness of touch; through humour and suggestion. In this sense it does not lead the reader by the nose in some didactic 'and the lesson to be learned here folks....' style, although it does make some serious points about the disintegration of society and the challenges of being a youngish male. By turns it is funny, poignant and thought provoking. Forget Brookmyre, thus guy is the real deal. Buy it.
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