| The Cockroach Contributor(s): McEwan, Ian (Author) |
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ISBN: 0593082427 ISBN-13: 9780593082423 Publisher: Anchor Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.27 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach transformed into the prime minister of England. An Anchor Original. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a giant creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain--and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head. |