John Lanchester's Proverbs
A few years ago (all right, six), British novelist John Lanchester came out with a book called Mr Phillips. Long before I'd reached the halfway point of this story about a man who has lost his job but can't 'fess up to his wife, I noticed that the title character was chock-full of aphorisms that, alas, had hardly been of any use to him. It' still an interesting collection, these insights of a failure. And how cheeky of me to substitute this list for a decent review!
