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Title: The Cockroach Title Record # 2624566
Author: Ian McEwan
Date: 2019-09-27
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Language: English
Synopsis: Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature ...
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2019Translated by Bernhard Robben
German Die Kakerlake

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The Cockroach 2019-09-27 Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape 978-1-5291-1292-4
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The Cockroach 2019-10-00 Ian McEwan Jonathan Cape 978-1-5291-1292-4
£7.99?£: UK pound
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100
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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The Cockroach 2019-10-01 Ian McEwan Anchor Books 978-0-593-08243-0
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The Cockroach 2019-10-08 Ian McEwan Anchor Books 978-0-593-08242-3
$11.00?$: US dollar
112
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
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