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| Author: Jonathan/ Buchanan Coe | Narrated By: Colin Buchanan |
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Struggling in vain to make a meaningful connection with his preoccupied family members and friends, Maxwell Sim quits his job to make a promotional sales delivery to the remote Shetland Islands, a car journey that forces him to confront events from his past. |
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The depths of loneliness are well plumbed in literature, but few reach the extremes of the title figure in THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM. Isolated from his parents, wife, and daughter, Sim's only connection to humanity comes through his job in a department store. As only he could, Sim spurns that social opportunity by agreeing to drive a carload of toothbrushes to the farthest reaches of the earth, where his only intimacy comes through the voice in his satellite tracking device.
The depths of loneliness are well plumbed in literature, but few reach the extremes of the title figure in THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM. Isolated from his parents, wife, and daughter, Sim's only connection to humanity comes through his job in a department store. As only he could, Sim spurns that social opportunity by agreeing to drive a carload of toothbrushes to the farthest reaches of the earth, where his only intimacy comes through the voice in his satellite tracking device.
"[A] compelling, poignant read...."
- Sara Vilkomerson
03/11/2011
"Coe has a lot of fun skewering the way technology and social media have become buttresses of society...."
01/31/2011
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