Expo 58
A Fiction, Belgium, Historical book. He waited in silence for the blindfold to be tied firmly at the back of...
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century, and the first to be held since the Second World War.As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, the lovely Flemish hostess who meets him off his plane. But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom...
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- Pages: 263 pages
- ISBN: 9780670923717 / 670923710
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He waited in silence for the blindfold to be tied firmly at the back of his head. Right, said Wilkins, emphatically. That should do. How many fingers am I holding up? Three, said Thomas. God damn it to hell, how did you know that? Can you see through the cloth? No. It was a guess. Well youre not supposed to guess. For crying out loud, Im trying to make sure that you cant see where were going. Were not here to play guessing games. How many fingers am I holding up? Ive no idea. I cant see a bloody thing. Good. It was four, by the way. Not that it matters.... Das Pub. Das Britannia. Ein uriges altes Wirtshaus, so britisch wie der Bowlerhut und Fisch und Chips, stellvertretend fr die beste Gastlichkeit, die unser Land zu bieten hat.Mr Ellis erschauderte. Die armen Belgier. Das wollen wir ihnen also zumuten, ja? Wrstchen mit Kartoffelbrei und Schweinspastete von vorletzter Woche, heruntergesplt mit einem Pint lauwarmes Bitter. Leute sind schon wegen weniger ausgewandert. Jonathan Coe, Expo 58 //
By Jonathan Coe standards, this is just middling. That means it's a highly entertaining read, just not at the level of What a Carve Up! or The House of Sleep. He's in his caricature and parody mode here, not the more "literary" approach he's used recently. There are some laugh out loud moments, especially with the Thompson-Twin-like... It's 1958 and Thomas Foley, a civil servant who writes copy for government pamphlets, is unexpectedly given a new role: he is to travel to Brussels for the World's Fair - also known as Expo 58 - where he will be in charge of overseeing the Britannia, an old-fashioned 'English pub' which will form part of the UK's exhibition at the event.... bien ri et apprci celui-ci
