- Fiction, Philosophers, Criminals, Bank robberies
Eddie Coffin, a washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher, and Hubert, an incompetent, freshly-released one-armed armed robber, question the meaning of life, the value of money, and the role of banks as they wind their way from Montpelier to Toulon in search of the greatest heist in history.
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Contemporary, comic, cool and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Tibor Fischer
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 310
- Publisher
- New Press, Scribner Paperback Fiction, Distributed by W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780748661602
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“The only advice I can offer, should you wake up vertiginously in a strange flat, with a thoroughly installed hangover, without any of your clothing, without any recollection of how you got there, with the police sledgehammering down the door to the accompaniment of excited dogs, while you are surrounded by bales of lavishly-produced magazines featuring children in adult acts, the only advice I can offer is to try be good-humoured and polite.”
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