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A brilliant piece of satire' ObserverAs every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that.
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Cool, comic, prestige and ironic.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Julian Barnes
- First published
- June 22, 1999
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Jonathan Cape, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Portuguese, Russian, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781407065458
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Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book *The Sense of an Ending* (2011). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. - Wikipedia
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