A Week in December
- Authors
- Sebastian Faulks
- Publisher
- Random House, Inc.
- Tags
- general , literary , fiction , fiction - general , london (england) , english contemporary fiction - individual authors , christmas stories
- ISBN
- 9780385532914
- Date
- 2010-03-09T05:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.37 MB
- Lang
- en
SUMMARY: From the author of the bestselling "Birdsong" comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe. London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on reality TV and genetically altered pot; and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill and savage humor, "A Week in December" explores the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life; as the novel moves to its gripping climax, its characters are forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they--and we all--inhabit.