![]() ![]() ![]() Farraday has recently bought Darlington Hall near Oxford from the descendants of the last noble-born owner and has asked Stevens - a fixture there for nearly four decades - to relax a bit before implementing a much-reduced staff Oxfordshire to the West Country that he is taking alone at the insistence of his new employer, a genial American, Mr. Cartoonishly punctilious and reserved, he edges slowly into an account of a brief motoring holiday from Though, its narrator, an elderly English butler named Stevens, seems the least forthcoming (let alone enchanting) of companions. Kazuo Ishiguro's third novel, ''The Remains of the Day,'' is a dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY By Kazuo Ishiguro. Section 7, Column 1 Book Review Deskīy LAWRENCE GRAVER Lawrence Graver teaches English at Williams College and is the author of a study of ''Waiting for Godot.'' October 8, 1989, Sunday, Late Edition - Final ![]()
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