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Arcadia

3.56 ( 472 Ratings by Goodreads)
Arcadia

Arcadia

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3.56 (472 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 19 March, 1992
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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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780224026925
ISBN10 0224026925
Number Of Pages 346
Item Weight 589 g
Product Dimensions 145 x 33 x 216 mm
Publisher / Reseller Jonathan Cape Ltd
Format hardback
Edition First Edition
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Media Reviews

A hugely gifted, utterly original writer. . . . Visit Craceland now. -- The Independent (UK)
Unquestionably one of the most inventive novelists writing in English today. -- Newsday
A deeply satisfying read, in which each well-turned phrase resounds in every finely tuned sentence. -- The Mail on Sunday (UK)
A celebration of the modern city. . . . in such vivid prose that you can almost see the bloom on the peaches, taste the sun-ripened oranges and smell the coffee at the market traders' stalls. -- The Sunday Times (UK)
One of the most beautifully written books in years. -- The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

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Author's Bio

This is Jim Crace's third novel. Continent won the Whitbread First Novel prize, the Guardian fiction prize and the David Highmam Prize. Both that and The Gift of Stones, his second novel, have been translated into most of the major European languages.

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