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

Publication Info.	Melbourne, Victoria : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2017.
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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.
	Business failures -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
	Missing persons -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
	Employees -- Psychology -- Fiction.
	City and town life -- Australia -- Brisbane (Qld.) -- Fiction.
	Brisbane (Qld.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	FICTION / General.
	Business failures. (OCoLC)fst00842694
	City and town life. (OCoLC)fst00862081
	Employees -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst00909170
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
	Self-service storage facilities. (OCoLC)fst01111932
	Queensland -- Brisbane. (OCoLC)fst01206537
Genre/Form	Australian fiction.
	Humorous fiction.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Humorous fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726649
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 bk.)
	0995359547 (electronic bk.)

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