Capital - Hardcover

Lanchester, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393082075 ISBN 13: 9780393082074

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012

Synopsis

Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ( an elegant and wonderfully witty writer New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumor and her graffiti-artist grandson, Pakistani shop owners and a shadowy refugee who works as the meter maid, the young soccer star from Senegal and his minder are receiving anonymous postcards reading We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment of extraordinary tension."

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Review:

The book John Lanchester was born to write.

Brimming with perception, humane empathy and relish, its portrayal of this metropolitan miscellany is, in every sense, a capital achievement.

Effortlessly brilliant--gripping for its entire duration, hugely moving and outrageously funny.

An exceptionally capacious and involving tale about disparate lives in turmoil on London's Pepys Road.... Lanchester makes us care deeply about his imperiled characters and their struggles, traumatic and ludicrous, as he astutely illuminates the paradoxes embedded in generosity and greed, age and illness, financial crime and religious fanaticism, immigration, exile, and terror. A remarkably vibrant and engrossing novel about what we truly value.--Donna Seaman

Capital comes in a great tradition of novels which are filled with the news of now, in which the intricacies of the present moment are noticed with clarity and relish and then brilliantly dramatized. It is clear that its characters, its wisdom, and the scope and range of its sympathy, will fascinate readers into the far future.--Cólm Toibín, author of Brooklyn

Searching, expert, on the money. I loved it.--Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland---

Book Description:

From the bestselling author of Whoops!: A post-crash, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and truth

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393082075
• ISBN 13: 9780393082074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528