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The Mannheim Exit

Peter Thornton

出版	Xeno Books, 2009-12
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	09559756549780955975653
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vebxQwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The author's fourth collection of stories. It comprises the novella THE MANNHEIM EXIT ' 'Inclined by nature to inertia and prevarication, lacking notable personal ambition'whether for advancement, affluence, or office'disliking change and accepting it only when imposed on him from without'an occasional, unavoidable evil'preferring in all things the familiar and the well-tried, [Richard Carteris asked] of life no more than that the future should be a prolongation of the past via an uneventful present . . .' A university lecturer involves himself in an affair that threatens to destroy utterly the settled pattern of his existence ' and three shorter stories: THE SILENCE OF JOSEPH B ' A lover of silence evolves a strategy for survival in a world of intolerable noise; TRANSITION ' A young man is disturbed by a glamorous Doppelgänger; and THE SLIDING DOORS ' A narrator's acrimonious dispute with his author radically transforms the fate of the characters.