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Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller

A retired, senile bank clerk confined to his basement apartment, Tómas Jónsson decides that, since memoirs are all the rage, he’s going to write his own — a sure bestseller — that will also right the wrongs of contemporary Icelandic society. Egoistic, cranky, and digressive, Tómas blasts away while relating pick-up techniques, meditations on chamber pot use, ways to assign monetary value to noise pollution, and much more. His rants parody and subvert the idea of the memoir — something that’s as relevant today in our memoir-obsessed society as it was when the novel was first published.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 424
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781940953601
  • Genres
  • fiction, novels
  • Release date
  • 2017