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Doubleday
March 2010
On Sale: March 9, 2010
400 pages
ISBN: 0385532911
EAN: 9780385532914
Hardcover
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Fiction
From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a
powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the
scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of
Tom Wolfe. London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we
follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund
manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his
career; a professional footballer recently arrived from
Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time
to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist
theory; a hack book reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on reality
TV and genetically altered pot; and a Tube train driver
whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other
lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill and savage humor, A Week in December
explores the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban
life; as the novel moves to its gripping climax, its
characters are forced, one by one, to confront the true
nature of the world they—and we all—inhabit.
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