A week in December
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...
| Main Author: | Faulks, Sebastian. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Doubleday,
c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
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.--From Amazon.com. |
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| Physical Description: |
392 p. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780385532914 0385532911 |
| Author Notes: |
Sebastian Faulks is the author of Where My Heart Used to Beat, which made the New Zealand Best Seller List 2015. (Bowker Author Biography) |