Terms & Conditions
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- 14,99 €
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- 14,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Frank has been in a car accident*. The doctor tells him he lost his spleen, but Frank believes he has lost more. He is missing memories – of the people around him, of the history they share and of how he came to be in the crash. All he remembers is that he is a lawyer who specialises in small print. But when Oscar, his brother, takes the family company into business with an inventively cruel corporation** and Alice, his wife, starts to seem oddly unlike the woman he remembers, Frank's world starts to unspool and the terms and conditions that he has lived his life by*** begin to change.
*apparently quite a serious one
**we can't tell you what it's called for legal reasons, but believe us, it's evil
***and which are rarely in his favour
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Frank Shaw wakes in a hospital bed with amnesia, unable to remember his family, his job, or the car accident that landed him there, in Glancy's debut novel, a clever office send-up that depicts one man questioning (quite literally) who he is, and who he wants to be. Frank's memory does slowly return: he's a lawyer in a London-based family-owned firm, living with his corporate-career-climbing wife, Alice. But as the story progresses, Frank begins to doubt whether everything is as it seems. There's a secret new group within his firm that resides behind a door no one else seems to see. Alice made her name by writing a bestselling business book, but the mere sight of it makes Frank furious. And why does he have such a fondness for the children's figurine with detachable organs that he found in the closet at home? Replete with obsessive footnoting, wry observation, and e-mails from Frank's globe-trotting brother, the book follows Frank's struggle to become the person he wants to be (whomever that is) and is a remarkably fun read.
