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Rent The Remains of the Day
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Sep 1990
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 245
Synopsis
An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity
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