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Author:   Sebastian Faulks
Publisher:   Vintage
Imprint:   Vintage
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.382kg
ISBN:  

9780099563068

ISBN 10:   0099563061
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   04 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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<p> A remarkable creation. . . . Truly moving. . . . richly human novel [and a] grand portrait of a city. -- The Washington Post <br> Ambitious, entertaining, and often scathingly angry. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> A Week in December is a formally ambitious, intelligently entertaining, rather provocative novel of contemporary manners. -- Los Angeles Times <br> Reflects the tumultuous present with both humor and a scathing sensibility. . . . This, at its heart, is fiction about folks, and it's darned compelling. -- The Denver Post <br> Vigorous, authentic and often hilarious. . . . Clever and convincing. -- Chicago Tribune <br> The ultimate urban novel. . . . A blistering social document. -- Seattle Times <br> <br> Delightful and witty. . . . A state-of-the-nation book, a satirical comedy of metropolitan literary life, a sweeping, Dickensian look at contemporary London, a serious examination of Islam and the reasons for radicalism among y

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Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005) and Engleby (2007). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.

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