David Ely MR NICHOLAS First Edition
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David Ely MR NICHOLAS First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of MR. NICHOLAS, by David Ely and published by Macmillan London Limited, in 1975.The book is in very good condition (Clean light green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine which has minor creasing to the spine edges), with some wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped (creasing/rubbing to the edges, some chipping to the corners, two small closed tears at the top and bottom edges on the front cover and one to the the bottom corner at the back). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
"STOP, LOOK, LISTEN
You know that nobody is watching you, checking on your job performance, making sure you don't overstep the mark at home, keeping tabs on you
So did Henry Haddock, incoming president of the company, handsome, efficient, he knows it's absurd to feel that his work is constantly monitored - that the device installed by the founder, Mr. Nicholas, for sitting in on board meetings, is still in use. All the same, he does feel it.
And this awareness seeps into every corner of his life; it drives him from paralysis to frantic action and back again, while his desperate attempts to exorcise it meet first the implacable deference and 'understanding' due to his status, and finally a bitter surprise. Moreover, compelled at last to explain his behaviour to the chairman, he finds himself triumphantly confirmed in his job - for his realisation that today surveillance is everywhere makes a fine exposition of the firm's philosophy. Its business is every kind of electronic equipment."
Mr. Nicholas is a portrait of institutionalised madness. It is brilliantly ironic, shatteringly plausible and obsessively involving. David Ely says that Mr. Nicholas' was in a fairly complete state of draft before Watergate broke in the newspapers.'
STOP, LOOK, READ.
247 pages.
SBN: 333 17930 7
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