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Care of wooden floors

Wiles, Will  more...
   

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperPress
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom



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An old friend asks you to look after his two cats and his apartment. What could go wrong? CARE OF WOODEN FLOORS is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It's about a friendship between two men who don't know each other very well. It's about alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It's about the quest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage to Laura dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, beautiful 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. Dark, funny and compelling, this novel takes your breath away with its extraordinarily distinctive writing.


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