Growing up in a town populated by magical beings, Karina Jewel's complete lack of ability is an embarrassment to her family and a source of great personal misery. But an inheritance from an aunt she's never heard of offers her the chance to break free and start life anew in the scenic High Sierras.
The Way Inn
โ Scribed by Wiles, Will
- Book ID
- 108650272
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 219 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062336101
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โฆ Synopsis
Up in the Air meets Inception in this smart, innovative, genre-synthesizing novel from the acclaimed author of Care of Wooden Floors--hailed as "Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud," by the Daily Telegraph--that takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee, and the free wifi, and twists them into a surrealistic nightmare of infinite proportions.
Neil Double is a "conference surrogate," hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers--a kind of paradise for Neil, who has reconstructed his incognito professional life into a toxic and selfish personal philosophy. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery.
In a brand new Way Inn--a global chain of identikit mid-budget motels--in an...
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Up in the Air meets Inception in this smart, innovative, genre-synthesizing novel from the acclaimed author of Care of Wooden Floors--hailed as "Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud," by the Daily Telegraph--that takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee, and the free wifi, and twis
Growing up in a town populated by magical beings, Karina Jewel's complete lack of ability is an embarrassment to her family and a source of great personal misery. But an inheritance from an aunt she's never heard of offers her the chance to break free and start life anew in the scenic High Sierras.
Growing up in a town populated by magical beings, Karina Jewel's complete lack of ability is an embarrassment to her family and a source of great personal misery. But an inheritance from an aunt she's never heard of offers her the chance to break free and start life anew in the scenic High Sierras.
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