Uncorrected advance proofs, 1989; Faber and Faber, London. Octavo 13.8 x 21cm, 245pp. Red/black patterned paperback with blocked titles to front and spine.
The Remains of the Day is the 1989 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The work was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. A film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards.As in Ishiguro's two previous novels, the story is told from a first person point of view. The narrator, Stevens, a butler, recalls his life in the form of a diary while the action progresses through to the present. Much of the novel is concerned with Stevens' professional and, above all, personal relationship with a former colleague, the housekeeper Miss Kenton.
Condition: There is a fainter red on the bottom of the front cover, which appears to have occurred in printing, and not through wear. Otherwise, a near fine copy.
- Binding Condition: Near Fine
- Overall Condition: Near Fine
- Size: 13.8 x 21cm
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