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Last Call

ID 289485
Slug last-call
Contributors
Author : Harry Mulisch
Annotation
Description <p>"This is the highest kind of achievement of which fiction is capable. . . . Ranks with the finest European fiction of recent years."&mdash;<em>The Christian Science Monitor</em><br /><br />Uli Bouwmeester is a retired variety artiste who spends his days whiling away his time. Out of the blue, an invitation arrives to play the leading part in a new drama at the Actor's Theater in Amsterdam, and he is flung with a vengeance from the monotony of life in the suburbs into the reality of the 1980s. All goes well until a television crew arrives to interview Uli, revealing a secret from his past that threatens not only the success of the theater's enterprise but also Uli's life.<br /><br />"In his corner of Europe, Dutch novelist Harry Mulisch is creating some of the more haunting, provocative fiction to emerge from the continent in the past decade."&mdash;<em>New York Newsday</em></p>
Genres
Subjects
301 Literaire roman, novelle NUR
NSTC
Publisher Penguin US
Imprint
Language eng
Page count
Duration
Publication date first 1991-07-01
Publication date latest 1991-07-01
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  • ISBN: 9780140156010 (BC)

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