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Vintage 21
Sebastian Faulks
ISBN: 9780099563068
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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It's London, the week before Christmas 2007. Over seven wintry days, this title lets us follow the lives of seven characters across the city, from a hedge fund manager to a Tube train driver. Above the complex patterns of modern urban life, the writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high, but the characters refuse to see it.
It's London, the week before Christmas 2007. Over seven wintry days, we follow the lives of seven characters across the city, from a hedge fund manager to a Tube train driver. Above the complex patterns of modern urban life, the writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high, but the characters refuse to see it. As the gripping climax looms, they are forced, one by one, to awake from their blinkered present to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit.
| ISBN | 0099563061 | | Pages | 400 | | ISBN13 | 9780099563068
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 382 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Vintage | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 04 Aug 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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"A remarkable creation. . . . Truly moving. . . . richly human novel [and a] grand portrait of a city." --"The Washington Post " "Ambitious, entertaining, and often scathingly angry." --"The New York Times Book Review " ""A Week in December "is a formally ambitious, intelligently entertaining, rather provocative novel of contemporary manners." --"Los Angeles Times " "Reflects the tumultuous present with both humor and a scathing sensibility. . . . This, at its heart, is fiction about folks, and it's darned compelling." --"The Denver Post " "Vigorous, authentic and often hilarious. . . . Clever and convincing." --"Chicago Tribune " "The ultimate urban novel. . . . A blistering social document." --"Seattle Times "" ""Delightful and witty. . . . A state-of-the-nation book, a satirical comedy of metropolitan literary life, a sweeping, Dickensian look at contemporary London, a serious examination of Islam and the reasons for radicalism among y
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