One character in this novel mistakenly suggests that Alfred Hitchcock directed Charade while trapped in an elevator with a character who drives an orange Volkswagen Beetle named Garcia.
One character in this novel mistakenly suggests that Alfred Hitchcock directed Charade while trapped in an elevator with a character who drives an orange Volkswagen Beetle named Garcia. In this novel, Truman the Third, who climbed Mauna Kea, is the only member to live past fifty of a tribe that fears a demon called Old Georgie. After Dermot Hoggins throws Felix Finch off a balcony for giving his book Knuckle Sandwich a bad review, a character in this novel gets trapped in Aurora House, a home for the elderly. One character in has an affair with Jocasta Commelynck while serving as an amanuensis for the syphilitic composer Vyvyan Ayrs. Another protagonist leads a revolution of fabricants in dystopic Korea, and is named Somni-451. Consisting of six nested narratives, such as Letters from Zeldeghem and The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish, it was published six years before the same author's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. FTP, name this novel by David Mitchell.
One character in this novel mistakenly suggests that Alfred Hitchcock directed Charade while trapped in an elevator with a character who drives an orange Volkswagen Beetle named Garcia.
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