The Odyssey
Book formats
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Paperback 3 913руб.
Book short specifications
- Author
- Lara Williams
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Language
- english
- Release date
- April 21, 2022
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-50281-5
- GTIN
- 9780241502815
- Weight, g
- 350
About
From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life — for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Convenience Store Woman, and J. G. Ballard's High Rise
Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting for long-term guests to drop dead in the changing rooms. On her days off, she disembarks from the ship and gets blind drunk on whatever the local alcohol is. It's not a bad life. And it distracts her from thinking about the other life she left behind five years ago.
Until one day she is selected for the employee mentorship scheme — an initiative run by the ship's mysterious captain and self-anointed lifestyle guru, Keith, who pushes Ingrid further than she thought possible. But sooner or later, she will have to ask herself: how far is too far?
Utterly original, mischievous and thought-provoking, The Odyssey is a merciless takedown of consumer capitalism and our anxious, ill-fated quests for something to believe in. And as its title suggests, it is a voyage that will eventually lead its unlikely heroine all the way home. Though she'd do almost anything to avoid getting there...