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Arcadia
Jim Crace
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Description for Arcadia
Paperback. Victor, an 80-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330453332
SKU
V9780330453332
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Ref
99-50
About Jim Crace
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.
Reviews for Arcadia
‘Presents Crace’s heavily politicised vision at its most ambitious and also at its most Ballard-like’ Irish Times ‘A deeply satisfying read, in which each well-turned phrase resounds in every finely tuned sentence’ Mail on Sunday ‘A celebration of the modern city . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the ... Read more