A WEEK IN DECEMBER.
by FAULKS**, SEBASTIAN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0091794455
- ISBN 13
- 9780091794453
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj, with white+brown lettering to front,and b/w critics' reviews to rear; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - a tiny closed tear to front top edge of dw/dj with some minimal, reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously toned,but generally bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain burgundy eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-392pp [paginated],plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication,and 2 epigrams/quotations.
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 hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill,the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. Greed,the dehumanising effects of the electronic age,and the fragmentation of society are some of the themes dealt with in this savagely humorous book.The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high,but the characters refuse to see it - and party on,as though tomorrow is a dream. Sebastian Faulks probes not only the self-deceptions of this intensely realised group of people,but their hopes and loves as well.As the novel moves to its gripping climax,they are forced,one by one,to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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Synopsis
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 and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman ; a small book of literary parodies, Pistache ; and the novels Human Traces and Engleby . He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- A WEEK IN DECEMBER.
- Author
- FAULKS**, SEBASTIAN:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091794455
- ISBN 13
- 9780091794453
- Publisher
- LONDON.HUTCHINSON,2009.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2009-10-04
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