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      Death of a Salaryman

      by Fiona Campbell
      Published
      Apr 2008
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      368
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      Kenji Yamada has a critical wife, a hated mother-in-law and what he thinks is a job for life until his fortieth birthday teaches him otherwise. Initially too embarassed to tell his family that he has been fired, Kenji first befriends a travelling salesman with a passion for Elvis before taking up gambling, but his wife's outrage soon brings an end to this and sends him on a roller-coaster of misadventures.

      Via a bizarre chain of happenstance - including being struck by lightning while wielding a golf club - Kenji somehow finds himself responsible for a weirdly believable game show...

      Fiona Campbell's novel is a sparkling debut with graphic-novel sharpness, humour and poignancy.

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      May 2009 Random House (UK) ISBN13 9780701180959 ISBN10 0701180951
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      Sep 2009 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099503699 ISBN10 0099503697
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      Feb 2011 Random House ISBN13 9781407019437 ISBN10 1407019430
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      Feb 2011 Vintage Digital ISBN10 B004E10RJK
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