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The Resource Ok, Mr. Field : a novel, Katharine Kilalea
Ok, Mr. Field : a novel, Katharine Kilalea
Resource Information
The item Ok, Mr. Field : a novel, Katharine Kilalea represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Ok, Mr. Field : a novel, Katharine Kilalea represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
- Summary
- Mr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one's disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the train he is travelling on crashes into the wall at the end of a tunnel. The accident splinters his left wrist, jeopardizing his musical ambitions. On a whim, he uses his compensation pay-out to buy a house he has seen only once in a newspaper photograph, a replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye on a stretch of coast outside Cape Town. Together with his wife, Mim, Mr. Field sets out in the hope that the house will make him happier, or at least less unhappy. But as time passes, the house-which Le Corbusier designed as "a machine for living"-begins to have a disturbing effect on Mr. Field. Its narrow windows educate him in the pleasures of frustrated desire. Its sequence of spaces, which seem to lead toward and away from their destinations at once, mirror his sense of being increasingly cut off from the world and from other people. When his wife inexplicably leaves him, Mr. Field can barely summon the will to search for her. Alone in the decaying house, he finds himself unglued from reality and possessed by a longing for a perverse kind of intimacy
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525573630
- Label
- Ok, Mr. Field : a novel
- Title
- Ok, Mr. Field
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Katharine Kilalea
- Title variation
- Okay, Mister Field
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Mr. Field wants a new life, a life cleansed of the old one's disappointments. A concert pianist on the London scene, his career is upended when the train he is travelling on crashes into the wall at the end of a tunnel. The accident splinters his left wrist, jeopardizing his musical ambitions. On a whim, he uses his compensation pay-out to buy a house he has seen only once in a newspaper photograph, a replica of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye on a stretch of coast outside Cape Town. Together with his wife, Mim, Mr. Field sets out in the hope that the house will make him happier, or at least less unhappy. But as time passes, the house-which Le Corbusier designed as "a machine for living"-begins to have a disturbing effect on Mr. Field. Its narrow windows educate him in the pleasures of frustrated desire. Its sequence of spaces, which seem to lead toward and away from their destinations at once, mirror his sense of being increasingly cut off from the world and from other people. When his wife inexplicably leaves him, Mr. Field can barely summon the will to search for her. Alone in the decaying house, he finds himself unglued from reality and possessed by a longing for a perverse kind of intimacy
- Cataloging source
- PUL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kilalea, Katharine
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9369.3.K46
- LC item number
- O39 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pianists
- Dwellings
- Accidents
- Spouses
- Desire
- South Africa
- Label
- Ok, Mr. Field : a novel, Katharine Kilalea
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525573630
- Lccn
- 2018003397
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1007581192
- (OCoLC)1007581192
- Label
- Ok, Mr. Field : a novel, Katharine Kilalea
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525573630
- Lccn
- 2018003397
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- on1007581192
- (OCoLC)1007581192
Library Locations
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Vancouver Public Library, Central Library (Open with Limited Services - Children’s Library, Level 2 and Level 3)Borrow it350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, CA49.280188 -123.114755
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Vancouver Public Library, Joe Fortes Branch (Open with Limited Services)Borrow it870 Denman Street, Vancouver, BC, V6G 2L8, CA49.290355 -123.136769
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Vancouver Public Library, Kerrisdale Branch (Open with Limited Services)Borrow it2112 West 42nd Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6M 2B6, CA49.233452 -123.156214
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Vancouver Public Library, Renfrew Branch (Open with Limited Services)Borrow it2969 E. 22nd Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5M 2Y3, CA49.250816 -123.04248
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