International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

Books nominated for the 2002 Award

One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city, but this is no ordinary Monday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a TV mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get caught up in a bank robbery. In short, it is, as Mr Phillips comes to realise, the first day of the rest of his life, whether he wants it to be or not. All this is both better and worse than being at work. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind his desk at Wilkins and Co., calculating the financial consequences of redundancies or recommending the savings to be made from more responsible use of yellow sticky note pads?

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He was brought up in the Far East and educated in England. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and is on the editorial board of the London Review of Books. The Debt to Pleasure, his first novel, was translated into twenty languages, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Betty Trask Prize (for 'a first novel of a romantic or traditional nature'), the Hawthornden Prize (for a work of 'imaginative literature') and a Julia Child Award (for 'literary food writing').

Mr Phillips	Nominated ISBNs: 0571201660 0399146040	Find out more about the author on the following websites: *Bookreporter* review of Mr. Phillips An excerpt from Mr. Phillips Brief author biography
by
John Lanchester

Nominated by:
Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, U.S.A Bergen Public Library, Bergen, Norway

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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