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The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim / Jonathan Coe. by Coe, Jonathan. Alfred A. Knopf, c2011. Call #: FICTION COE Subjects Losers -- Fiction.   Divorced men -- Fiction.   Social isolation -- Fiction.   Middle-aged men -- Fiction.   Failure (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.   Automobile travel -- Fiction.   Global Positioning System -- Fiction.   Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Shetland (Scotland) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780307594815 Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  314 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "Maxwell Sim can't seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his best friend since childhood is refusing to return his calls. He has seventy-four friends on Facebook, but nobody to talk to. In an attempt to stir himself out of this horrible rut, Max quits his job as a customer liaison at the local department store and accepts a strange business proposition that falls in his lap by chance: he's hired to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the remote Shetland Islands, part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental-hygiene company intent on illustrating the slogan 'We Reach Furthest.' But Max's trip doesn't go as planned, as he's unable to resist making a series of impromptu visits to important figures from his past who live en route. After a string of cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward misadventures, he finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of his GPS system ('Emma') and obsessively identifying with a sailor who perpetrated a notorious hoax and subsequently lost his mind. Eventually Max begins to wonder if perhaps it's a severe lack of self-knowledge that’s hampering his ability to form actual relationships. A humane satire and modern-day picaresque, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is a gently comic and rollickingly entertaining novel about the paradoxical difficulties of making genuine attachments in a world of advanced communications technology and rampant social networking."--Publisher. Genre:  Psychological fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION COE Adult Mass Market Paperback Books Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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