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  • Published: 31 May 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188348
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $16.99

The Driver's Seat



New to Modern Classics, published alongside The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city, as she meets her fate.

  • Published: 31 May 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188348
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $16.99

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Praise for The Driver's Seat

The Driver's Seat is a scalpel, cutting away the excess of the traditional novel and leaving only the core. It is a stiletto, piercing straight to the heart - or thereabouts

John Self