- Immigrants, Fiction, Fiction, general, London (england), fiction
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the capital. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the city.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- John Lanchester
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., Faber & Faber, Limited, McClelland & Stewart
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571280483
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