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100 1 $aIshiguro, Kazuo,$d1954-.
245 14$aThe remains of the day /$cKazuo Ishiguro.
250 $a1st Vintage international ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c1993.
300 $a245 p. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aVintage international.
500 $aOriginally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1989--T.p. verso.
520 $aThe novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
650 0$aCountry homes$vFiction.
650 0$aHousehold employees$vFiction.
651 0$aEngland$vFiction.
830 0$aVintage international.