You Don't Have To Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits

You Don't Have To Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE

Ten years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. But for every urban misfit who's come for a fresh start, there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials.

'Intense and very funny.' Guardian, 'Best Novels of 2015'
'Is Markovits contemporary fiction's best kept secret?' Independent on Sunday
'Remarkable.' Irish Independent
'Multi-stranded and gripping.' Sunday Times

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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ISBN 13	9780571313426
ISBN 10	0571313426
Title	You Don't Have To Live Like This
Author	Benjamin Markovits
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2016-07-07
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2016
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