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  • 2020
  • Simon & Schuster Canada edition.

Anxious people

a novel

Fredrik Backman, (1981-)

Neil Smith, (1964-)

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An apartment open house becomes a life-or-death situation when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes eight extremely anxious strangers hostage. The captives include a retired couple who hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix up their own marriage, a wealthy banker who has been too busy making money to care about anyone else, a young couple who are about to have their first baby but can't seem to agree on anything, an eighty-year old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered, but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment's only bathroom. As the authorities and media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so surprising that even they can't explain what happens next.

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Title Statement Anxious people: a novel / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Neil Smith.
Author Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Additional Contributors Smith, Neil,1964-
Publication Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada,2020.
Edition Simon & Schuster Canada edition.
Extent of Item 341 pages
ISBN 1982121602 (pbk.)
9781982121600 (pbk.)
Other Number 3849754
General Notes Translation of: Folk med ångest.
Summary An apartment open house becomes a life-or-death situation when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes eight extremely anxious strangers hostage. The captives include a retired couple who hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix up their own marriage, a wealthy banker who has been too busy making money to care about anyone else, a young couple who are about to have their first baby but can't seem to agree on anything, an eighty-year old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered, but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment's only bathroom. As the authorities and media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so surprising that even they can't explain what happens next.
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Brigands and robbers--Fiction
Real estate agents--Fiction
Hostages--Fiction
Apartment houses--Fiction
Secrecy--Fiction
Interpersonal relations--Fiction
By Genre Humorous fiction
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