- Fiction, Social conditions, City and town life, Politics and government
The award-winning author of The Mulberry Empire brings us a sweeping chronicle of ordinary lives profoundly shaped by both the subtleties of everyday experience and the larger forces of history.In 1974, the Sellers family is transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Hensher
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 668
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf, Fourth Estate
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400044481
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