Missing by choice

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: T Doherty, 1987

0812512065 / 9780812512069

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Missing by Choice (1987) ? Roger Victor (T Doherty) ISBN: 0812512065 ? Condition: Used ? Sold by Crappy Old Books? What if the bravest thing you could do in the late-?80s wasn?t to climb Everest or buy a neon tracksuit?what if it was to disappear on purpose? Before search engines, before ?last seen? dots on your phone, there was a magnificent, analog art to vanishing. Missing by Choice is a sly, sardonic postcard from that world: a how-to of human evasion disguised as a novel, or a novel disguised as a how-to, depending on which dog-eared page you open first. This is a story about the gravity of absence. About the way an empty chair can be louder than a confession, and how bureaucracy?bless its stamp-happy heart?can lose you if you nudge it gently and walk away. It?s payphones and paper maps. It?s letters that arrive two weeks late and still feel on time. It?s the all-too-familiar itch to step out of your life and see whether anyone notices, and the uncomfortable surprise when they do? or don?t. Roger Victor?s voice is dry as an office biscuit and twice as crumbly?in the best way. He writes like he?s whispering across a library table: deadpan, precise, and quietly funny. The book doesn?t preach about identity; it misplaces it, then asks you to help look in all the usual spots: the glove compartment, the bottom drawer, the space behind the couch where you swore you?d never go again. Along the way, it skewers the mundane?the afternoon shift, the waiting room, the form with the wrong box ticked?until the everyday looks slightly tilted, like a photograph hung just off-level on purpose. You won?t find chase scenes here; you?ll find the slow suspense of not returning a call. You won?t find grand declarations; you?ll find the tiny heroism of leaving a coffee mug unwashed in a sink you may never see again. It?s unflashy, unhurried, and improbably gripping?like watching a magician who only ever palms coins and still makes your watch vanish. And yes, this copy comes to you Used , courtesy of the unapologetically named Crappy Old Books? , who know a thing or two about items with a past. Expect a little patina, possibly a sun-kissed spine, and that faint, contemplative aroma of paper that remembers 1987 better than the internet does. The kind of book that looks good on a nightstand and even better with a bus ticket slipped inside as a bookmark. Buy it if you?ve ever fantasized about walking out the wrong door and discovering it was the right one. Read it if you suspect that reinvention starts with a shrug, not a speech. Keep it because, ironically, a book about disappearing is exactly the sort of thing you?ll want to make sure never goes missing again.

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Título
Missing by choice
Autor
Roger Victor
Editorial
T Doherty
Año de publicación
1987
Estado
Used
Encuadernación
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Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0812512065
ISBN 13
9780812512069

Crappy Old Books

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Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine. Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates. The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.

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