- Literature, Fiction, Self-perception, England, fiction
Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching – and funny, in the deepest shade of black. Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think.When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school.
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Bleak, spare, prestige and contemporary.
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- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, Prometheus, Vintage Books USA
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- und, English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780091795719
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