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Title:

ARCADIA

By:

Jim Crace

Format:

Paperback

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£10.99

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£8.02

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ISBN 10:

0330453335

ISBN 13:

9780330453332

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Publisher:

PAN MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

4 January, 2008

Pages:

352

Description:

Victor, an 80-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city - one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.

Synopsis:

Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city -- one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.

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Imprint:

Picador

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