Mr Phillips

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John Lanchester
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Following up on his successful cookbook-cum-mystery (The Debt to Pleasure, 1996), Lanchester offers an end-of-the-century

version of Mrs. Dalloway—with results as brilliantly captivating as Michael Cunningham’s were in The Hours. Victor Phillips, married with two sons, lives in a London far different from Clarissa Dalloway’s—more populous and polluted, more clogged with traffic, more ridden with crime—and yet a city that’s much unchanged. To show this sameness within differences, Lanchester imitates Woolf by using the method that she (and James Joyce) made new, following his character through a day of wandering through the city.