| Author: |
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Willem Elsschot
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| Title: |
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Cheese |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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134 |
| Date: |
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2002-04 |
| ISBN: |
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186207481X |
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Granta Books |
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0.6 pounds |
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5.62 x 7.7 x 0.72 inches |
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First British Edition |
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2 Anne (Canada), Eadie Burke (USA: PA) |
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2 Karenwardill (Canada), Autumn Frymark (USA: TX) |
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Product Description
Cheese is a gentle, satirical fable of capitalism and wealth. A clerk in Antwerp suddenly becomes the chief agent in Belgium and Luxembourg for this red-rinded Dutch delight and is saddled with 370 cases containing ten thousand full-cream cheeses. But he has no idea how to run a business, or how to sell his goods, and he doesn't even like cheese. Steeped in the atmosphere of the 1930s, in a world full of smart operators and and failed businessmen, Cheese gracefully incorporates the rigid class divisions of the time and a man's obsession with status. It is as relevant in our age of Internet investors and dot.com failures as it was when it was written.
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