Häftad, Engelska, 2008
Arcadia
Av Jim Crace
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Beskrivning
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city – one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city – one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2008-01-04
- Mått: 130 x 197 x 25 mm
- Vikt: 266 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 384
- Förlag: Pan Macmillan
- ISBN: 9780330453332
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Jim Crace is the prize-winning author of ten books, including Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize), Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.
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‘Presents Crace’s heavily politicised vision at its most ambitious and also at its most Ballard-like’ Irish Times
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