- Strangers, City planning, Fiction, Social isolation
"Four Londoners--Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan--try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (an Imprint of Penguin Books), Penguin
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- heb, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781410454584
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