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Author Cohen, David, 1967- author.

Title Disappearing off the face of the Earth / David Cohen.

Publication Info. Melbourne, Victoria : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary Hideaway Self Storage, located just off Brisbane's M1, is in decline. But manager Ken Guy and his assistant Bruce carry on with their daily rituals even as the facility falls apart around them. Lately, however, certain tenants have been disappearing off the face of the earth, leaving behind units full of valuable items. Ken has no idea where these rent defaulters have gone but he thinks he might be able to turn their abandoned 'things' into a nice little earner that could help save his business. But the disappearances are accompanied by strange occurrences such as Bruce's inexplicable late-night excursions, Ken's intensifying aversion to fluorescent lights, and Ken's girlfriend's intensifying aversion to Ken. While further along the motorway, construction of a rival facility - Pharoah's Tomb Self Storage, part of a nationwide franchise - hints at a mysterious past and a precarious future. A surprisingly funny study of physical and mental deterioration, David Cohen's second novel is never quite what it seems. Sharply attuned to the absurdities of contemporary urban life, it is that rare literary beast, a comic drama that is at once intelligent and suspenseful, humorous and deep.
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Subject Self-service storage facilities -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
Self-service storage facilities.
Australia.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Business failures -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
Business failures.
Missing persons -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
Missing persons.
Employees -- Psychology -- Fiction.
Employees -- Psychology.
Employees.
City and town life -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
City and town life.
Brisbane (Qld.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Australian fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cohen, David Phillip, 1967- Disappearing off the face of the Earth. Melbourne, Victoria : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2017 9780995359482 (OCoLC)979536986
ISBN 9780995359543 (electronic book)
0995359547 (electronic book)
9780995359482
0995359482