Arcadia by Jim Crace
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.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780224026925 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224026925 |
| Title | Arcadia |
| Author | Jim Crace |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1992-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 346 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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