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Other People's Money

Autor Justin Cartwright
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2012
A darkly comic novel about a rich family on the edge of ruin, by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness.'Other People's Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction' David Mitchell'What a great read this is. Cartwright assembles a wonderful cast of characters in this masterpiece of a comic novel' Observer'A high-class piece of literary entertainment' SpectatorThe Trevelyan family is in grave trouble.Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last.A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the public, but also from Julian Trevelyan-Tubal's deeply traditional father, Sir Harry, who is incapacitated in the family villa in Antibes.Great families, great fortunes and even greater secrets collide in this gripping, satirical and acutely observed story of our time.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408821695
ISBN-10: 1408821699
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Combined sales of the hbk and tpb were higher than combined sales of any of Justin Cartwright's previous hbk and tpb sales

Notă biografică

Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung and, most recently, To Heaven By Water. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London.

Recenzii

Other People's Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction
What a great read this is. Cartwright assembles a wonderful cast of characters in this masterpiece of a comic novel
A high-class piece of literary entertainment
Urgently topical fiction with its finger on the pulse of earth-shaking events ... Cartwright¹s fiction has an uncanny habit of catching the zeitgeist in nets of fine-meshed tragi-comic steel
Cartwright's novel displays, with triumphant accomplishment, the pleasures and the potency of on-the-spot social reportage
A delicately patterned novel about the heroic search for happiness and its ultimate fragility. The comfortable middle-class setting and faintly fairytale ending belie a portrait of family life in which concealment and compromise are never far away. Quietly moving
Sublime ... While the engrossing story gradually builds to the urgency of a thriller, it is the richly drawn characters who provide the novel's enduring pleasure ... a brilliantly entertaining satire
This satire has many strengths - not least of all making the crash understandable to those (like me and, as we now know, bankers) who did not understand it. And there are countless moments of excellence
Very cleverly put together, and funny as well
Caustic and entertaining
Cartwright builds his enjoyably satirical comedy of manners ... Cartwright is a sophisticated enough writer to make the predictability of these characters seem like part of the joke, as if to underline the moribund nature of the world he depicts ... a well-paced and absorbing read
Shady dealings at a venerable family bank provide the backdrop for a masterful chronicle of the way we live now

Descriere

The new novel by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness.