Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #973867 in Books
• Published on: 1977-07
• Binding: Paperback
• 126 pages

Synopsis
Mr Stone likes to be known as Head Librarian with Excal, and dislikes the prospect of retirement. After a brief acquaintanceship with Mrs Springer, he marries her to defend himself against idleness and solitude. Then a foolproof plan strikes him, to introduce the order of the Knights Companion.

Customer Reviews

A gem- repression, pomposity and the need to belong
Naipaul's satirization of middle-class, middle-aged life during the middle of the twentiath century is hilarious, touching and despite its subject very interesting.
Mr Stone is a comic and a tragic figure- his plans of "The Knights Compainion" a solidarity scheme for workers and ex-workers at the company he works for is both hilarious as it is the type of thing it is only too easy to imagine a company doing and sad in that it shows Mr Stone's deep fear of not belonging and a fear of becoming old.
A very good little book that presses all the right buttons.