Description for Capital
Paperback. The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 38. Weight in Grams: 438. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571234622
SKU
KJE0003391
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Lanchester
John Lanchester has written four novels - The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, and Capital - and two works of non-fiction - Family Romance, a memoir, and Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and ... Read more
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