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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE 2004 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION, AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
Bloomsbury Publishing
October 2005
400 pages
ISBN: 1582346100
Trade Size (reprint)
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In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves
into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens:
conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife
Rachel, and their two children, Toby—whom Nick had idolized
at Oxford—and Catherine, highly critical of her family's
assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent
in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered
by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two
vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black
clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the
dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a
pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and
riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally
charged, disarmingly comic, this is a major work by one of
our finest writers.
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