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A week in December

A novel that combines the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. It deals with such themes as: greed, the dehumanising effects of the electronic age and the fragmentation of society.

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  • "A novel that combines the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. It deals with such themes as: greed, the dehumanising effects of the electronic age and the fragmentation of society."@en
  • "This is a powerful contemporary novel set in London from the bestselling author of BIRDSONG, CHARLOTTE GRAY, and most recently ENGLEBY. The central anti-hero, John Veals, is a shadily successful and boundlessly ambitious Dickensian character who is trading billions. The tentacles of Veals' influence encompass newspaper columnists, MPs, business men, footballers, a female tube driver, a Scottish convert to Islam, a disaffected teenager, and a care worker, whose different perspectives build up a tale of woe, family and money as the story builds to its powerful climax."@en
  • "This is a powerful contemporary novel set in London from the bestselling author of BIRDSONG, CHARLOTTE GRAY, and most recently ENGLEBY. The central anti-hero, John Veals, is a shadily successful and boundlessly ambitious Dickensian character who is trading billions. The tentacles of Veals' influence encompass newspaper columnists, MPs, business men, footballers, a female tube driver, a Scottish convert to Islam, a disaffected teenager, and a care worker, whose different perspectives build up a tale of woe, family and money as the story builds to its powerful climax."
  • "Follow over seven eventful days, the lives of seven major characters crossing paths in a modern urban setting with all its ironies, conflicts and discontinuities. The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet hight, but the characters refuse to see it -- and party on as though tomorrow is a dream."@en
  • "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 skunk and reality TV; and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. Greed, the dehumanising effects of the electronic age and the fragmentation of society are some of the themes dealt with in this savagely humorous book."
  • ""In Sebastian Faulks' panoramic and masterful new novel, we follow, over seven eventful days, 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 with more blades out than a Swiss Army knife, a schoolboy hooked on genetically enhanced pot and reality TV, and a Tube train driver with a secret online life whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. Here is a powerfully compelling novel that holds a mirror up to the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life, with all its ironies, conflicts, and discontinuities. Melding the moral heft of Dickens with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe, A Week in December fearlessly tackles greed, the dehumanizing effects of the electronic age, and the fragmentation of society with savage humor. The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high, but the characters refuse to see it--and party on as though tomorrow is a dream"--Page 2 of cover."
  • "London, the week before Christmas. Over the course of seven days, seven people live out their lives: a hedge-fund manager who tries 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 skunk and reality TV; and a Tube driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. In an age of greed and fragmented society, they refuse to see the writing on the wall and they party on ... until they are forced to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit."

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  • "Christmas stories"@en
  • "Christmas stories"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "A week in december"@es
  • "A week in december"
  • "Čarobna nedelja"
  • "A week in December"
  • "A week in December"@en
  • "Een week in december"
  • "Неделя в Декабре : роман"
  • "A Week in December"
  • "Nedeli︠a︡ v Dekabre : roman"

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