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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's latest heart-breaking and hilarious novel

Maxwell Sim could be any of us. He could be you.

He's about to have a mid-life crisis (though eh doesn't know it yet). He'll be found in his car in the north of Scotland, half-naked and alone, suffering hypothermia, with a couple of empty whisky bottles and a boot full of toothbrushes.

It's a far cry from a restaurant in Sydney, where his story starts.

But then Maxwell Sim has, unknowingly, got a long way to go. If he knew now about his lonely journey to the Shetland Isles, or the truth about his father and the folded photograph, or the mystery of Poppy and her peculiar job, or even about Emma's lovely, fading voice, then perhaps he's stay where he was - hiding from destiny.

But Max knows none of it. And nor do you - at least not yet. . .

Equal parts funny and moving, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim will be cherished by readers everywhere, from fans of David Nicholls to Will Self.

'Witty, unexpected and curiously unsettling. Coe carries it off with empathy, comedy and a ventriloquist's ear for idiom' Literary Review

'Clever, engaging, spring-loaded with mysteries and surprises' Time Out

'Masterly, highly engaging. Coe's eye for the details of contemporary life remains as sharp as ever' Daily Mail

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Cunningly plotted, extremely well-written and very, very funny ― Daily Telegraph

As funny and as well-written as you'd expect. It is archly and artfully structured too ― Prospect

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Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74 friends on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles - and a voyage into his family's past which throws up some surprising revelations.

A story for our times, Maxwell finds himself at sea in the modern world, surrounded by social networks but unable to relate properly to anyone.

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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1° edizione (26 giugno 2014)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 352 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241967775
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241967775
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 240 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm
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grelobe
5,0 su 5 stelle una storia inaspettata
Recensito in Italia il 17 settembre 2019
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potrebbe essere il solito racconto di una crisi di un uomo di mezza età, ed in parte lo è. Jonathan Coe attinge a piene mani ad un sottile umorismo Inglese . Ma nella storia , c'è una storia inaspettata. Bisogna leggere il romanzo però per capire quale è.
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Fabio Rosa
4,0 su 5 stelle Contemporary everyman on a journey across Britain
Recensito in Italia il 13 gennaio 2018
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A middle-age crisis for a contemporary everyman on a journey across Britain to recover sense, identity and affections. Bitter-sweet british humour flavored with everybody questions about life, relationships betweens relatives and sons, male vs female perspectives, and the struggle to find a balance in an everchanging world of work (of technology, and of social behaviours). I haven't finished it yet but can certainly say it's a highly enjoyable piece of fiction (maybe also of literature..., the situation is not original but the actual interpretation offer an excellent iteration of the subject-matter) as Coe's novels generally are. Recommended to everyman above 45.
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gio
3,0 su 5 stelle Funny but not a masterpiece
Recensito in Italia il 11 settembre 2013
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I liked Coe's WWhat a carve up!" and "The house of sleep" very much and this is the reason I bought this book. I found it quite funny and well written but I think the author spoiled it with the last 10 pages. I wouldn't recommend it to any of my friends.
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jo99
5,0 su 5 stelle Après avoir vu le film français : La Vie très privée de Monsieur Sim
Recensito in Francia il 26 marzo 2023
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Le film intéressant mais m'a laissé sur ma faim et sur... sa fin parce que je n'ai pas compris... beaucoup de choses alors : J'ai acheté ce livre en anglais.... peut-être pour comprendre.
Pas déçu aus contraire j'ai apprécié et j'ai eu bien plus de plaisir et de surprises que dans le film.

Première chose étonnante, alors que quand je lis un livre après avoir vu le film, j'imagine toujours le personnage, dans ma tête, sour forme de l'acteur qui l'a joué... là ce n'a pas été le cas, pas de Bacri dans ma tête.
Alors ? Bacri était sans doute bon mais le Mr SIM de J. Coe a bien plus de présence... et on vit plus de choses avec lui (et dans sa tête).
Le film comme le roman lu dans la foulée ont été l'occasion de découvrir l'extraordinaire histoire de Donald Crowhurst... du coup j'ai aussi acheté le livre qui relate son épopée (à lire maintenant)
Donc The terrible privvacy :Ecriture remarquable et remarquables imbrications d'histoires. Bien sûr, faute de le lire en anglais ça vaut le coup de la lire en français.

Pour revenir à J. Coe: Ecriture remarquable avec de remarquables imbrications d'histoires.
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JD Cetola
5,0 su 5 stelle A Return to Form
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 29 maggio 2011
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Jonathan Coe is one of my favorite authors. I consider "The Rotters' Club" and "The Closed Circle" to be easily in my top 20 favorite books of all time. Coe has a knack for writing thoughtful and clever novels with plenty of black humor and relevant societal commentary. I found "The Rain Before it Falls" a disappointment although I did enjoy Coe's bio of B.S. Johnson ("Like a Fiery Elephant"). "The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" isn't quite up to the lofty standard of the Rotters' books, but it is certainly on par with "The House of Sleep" and "The Winshaw Legacy". In short: a very worthy read.

"The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim" is essentially about the importance of love and relationships. Sim is on a quest to determine what "a real relationship between two human beings should be, at a time when people seemed to be losing the ability to connect with one another, even as technology created more and more ways in which it out to be possible". Coe uses the ill-fated sailing trip of Donald Crowhurst as more than a metaphor/pre-cursor to Sim's on quest for meaning as Sim embarks on a solo trip to the remote northern UK to peddle toothbrushes. "The Terrible Privacy" is loneliness and Sim's quest to eliminate this privacy is told with great care and humor by Coe. Very highly recommended.
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AHD
5,0 su 5 stelle Unterwegs mit Maxwell
Recensito in Germania il 14 novembre 2010
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Sicher waren es die Amazon-"Vorschläge", die mich auf diesen mir bis anhin unbekannten Autor stossen liessen, denn andere Hinweise hatte ich keine. Um so erfreulicher in der Folge diese Lektüre über Maxwell Sims Privacy. Mit viel skurilem Humor, grosser Sensibilität und messerscharfen Einsichten über so Vieles, was unsere anscheinend so kommunikationsfreudige (und oft doch sehr kommunikationsarme) Zeit ausmacht, erzählt Coe, wie Maxwell reisenderweise langsam aber sicher zu sich selbst findet. Das Ende ist überraschend, nicht nur für Maxwell, sondern auch für den Leser. Jedoch ist es nicht die Inhaltsebene allein, die den Reiz des Buches ausmacht, sondern ihr eigenwilliger Aufbau mit Geschichten in der Geschichte und unerwarteten Wendungen.
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David Harris
5,0 su 5 stelle Should've, could've, would've...
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 26 luglio 2010
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I loved this book - odd, perhaps, because the main character, Maxwell Sim, is far from lovable, or even likeable. As his wife notes, he doesn't even like himself. At the start of the book, Maxwell decides to chat with a stranger on a plane. The man makes clear that he doesn't want to join in. "I wasn't having that" comments Maxwell to us, and launches into a rambling speech that only ends when the victim drops dead (it takes Maxwell a while to notice). What else isn't likeable about Maxwell? If a woman is merely polite, he assumes that she must be falling for him (eventually he takes this to extremes and strikes up a relationship with his satnav, holding conversations with it and calling it Emma). When he is mugged, he not only hands over his phone but gives his attacker a clear description of how to get to the station. He isn't very observant - driving up the M40 from High Wycombe he remarks that the countryside is all the same, though he must have passed through the magnificent Stokenchurch cutting. (In his defence, I can't totally dislike someone who remembers where he was when John Smith died).

It is fascinating to see Sim's history gradually peeled back in the four parts of this book as he takes a journey. Each is named after one of the four elements and includes a "discovered" text or story which fills in part of the background - beginning, though, with an account of Donald Crowhurst, a 1960s would be round the world sailor whose voyage collapsed into fantasy and with whom Sim sees parallels (though his journey is less ambitious). These might seem rather heavily done, but you have to read to the very last page before it becomes completely clear what is really going on.

The idea of a man in his mid 40s embarking on an epic journey as a way of escape, or of understanding himself better, or both, didn't of course originate with Crowhurst (or Sim) - see for example  Sailing Alone Around the World  for the full round the world experience or  Coasting (Picador Books)  for a more thoughtful and introspective version. It works for Sim, giving us a perspective on how he came to be the unlikeable man he is, and complementary insights into his father (perhaps that aspect is a little too neat, though). In the end the solution for both of them is similar: but will Maxwell be able to do what is required?

In the course of Maxwell's journey, Jonathan Coe ruminates on a number of themes recognisable from his earlier books - the homegenisation of the high street (Maxwell approves of this: he likes to be able to visit a strange town and go into a familiar restaurant. He also likes motorway service stations), the loss - in Britain - of the ability, or desire, to actually make things, symbolised by the loss of the Longbridge car factory (whose fate was described in  The Closed Circle . Indeed, a character in one of the included narratives goes on about the superiority of spirit to mere physicality: he is also responsible for drawing Maxwell's father into a world of gambling on exotic derivatives, to his loss).

There is just so much that's good about this book, I could go on and on, like Maxwell. Better to stop and just say: read this book!
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Joost Kiefte
4,0 su 5 stelle A riches of embarrassment.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 31 gennaio 2015
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I have little to add to the other reviews at this stage, save that I too thought the ending of the book a letdown, albeit a minor one, although the careful reader might have had an intimation of how it was going to work out: the voice of the purported author has been heard in a few places before. (Does Coe have a problem with endings? I thought the endings of The Rotters' Club and of What a Carve Up the weakest parts of the books). Also, the interior monologue-like ramble (something already tried by Coe in The Rotters' Club) on his flight from Australia to Singapore is a bit taxing. No matter, just a few lesser pages shouldn't be allowed to overshadow the rest of the book, which I think is very good. If Maxwell's inertia doesn't make him an entirely likeable character, he's certainly not a bad sort and means well, but the many armpit moistening embarrassments he suffers throughout the book do evoke feelings of visceral pity, and his almost constant failure to take matters in hand made me feel something approaching vicarious shame. The only time he really lets his feelings finally get the better of him (the nettle pit scene) ends in disaster. The faint hope that glimmers towards the end is however cruelly doused by Coe's arty-crafty ending.
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