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Care Of Wooden Floors
Will Wiles
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2012
On Sale: October 9, 2012
295 pages
ISBN: 0547953569
EAN: 9780547953564
Kindle: B008L4KNA4
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Fiction Family Life
A British copywriter house-sits at his composer friend
Oskar’s ultra-modern apartment in a glum Eastern European
city. The instructions are simple: Feed the cats, don’t
touch the piano, and make sure nothing damages the priceless
wooden floors. Content for the first time in ages, he
accidentally spills some wine. The apartment and the
narrator’s sanity gradually fall apart in this unusual and
satisfying novel. Oskar has left several notes for
his friend, gently instructing him in the proper maintenance
of the flat. But over the course of one disastrous week, as
the situation in (and out) of the apartment spirals out of
control, the notes take on a more insistent—and creepily
prescient—tone. Anyone who has ever felt inferior to
a perfectionist friend will sympathize with the narrator’s
plight. Wiles is a genuinely funny comic novelist in the
tradition of those two earlier British W’s, Wodehouse and Waugh.
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