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13 1 y separately published work icon The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Jonathan Coe , London : Viking , 2010 Z1714821 2010 single work novel

'Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems.

'Then a business proposition comes his way - a strange exercise in corporate PR that will require him to spend a week driving from London to a remote retail outlet on the Shetland Isles. Setting out with an open mind, good intentions and a friendly voice on his SatNav for company, Maxwell finds that this journey soon takes a more serious turn, and carries him not only to the furthest point of the United Kingdom, but into some of the deepest and darkest corners of his own past.

'In his sparkling and hugely enjoyable new book Jonathan Coe reinvents the picaresque novel for our time.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Principia Efica Jonathan Coe , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 22 September vol. 16 no. 18 1994; (p. 5)

— Review of The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith Peter Carey , 1994 single work novel
1 Sydney's Inferno Jonathan Coe , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 24 September vol. 14 no. 18 1992; (p. 22)

— Review of The Last Magician Janette Turner Hospital , 1992 single work novel
1 Making Jokes is No Laughing Matter Jonathan Coe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Guardian Weekly , 3 November 1991; (p. 26)

— Review of Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation : Backstage with Barry Humphries John Lahr , 1991 single work biography
1 Australian Circles Jonathan Coe , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 12 September vol. 13 no. 17 1991; (p. 12)

— Review of The Tax Inspector Peter Carey , 1991 single work novel ; The Second Bridegroom Rodney Hall , 1991 single work novel
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