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THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN
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| By: |
Claire Messud |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£7.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330475142 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330475143 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN (DIGITAL) |
| Pub. date: |
21 November, 2011 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
In the glittering tradition of Edith Wharton, The Emperor's Children examines life in upper-crust Manhattan, and tells a compelling story of ambition, vanity and tragedy. |
| Synopsis: |
In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie -- fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark -- forces them to confront their own desires and expectations. The Emperor's Children is a sweeping portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the world, and a haunting illustration of how the events of a single day can change everything, for ever. 'Brilliant ...a masterpiece' Independent on Sunday 'Intelligent and unsparing ...The Emperor's Children is likely to be one of the most talked-about novels of the autumn ...Buy two copies; give one to a friend' The Economist 'Messud's prose is a timely and intensely pleasurable reminder of the possibilities of the English language.To use the word clarity about her style -- dense, chaste, luminously intelligent -- is to return the word to its origins; this is style as illumination, shining a searching yet sympathetic light on the minds and inner worlds of her characters, and as a radiant mode of moral inquiry' The Times 'As large-hearted as it is ambitious, this is a novel that combines the old-fashioned art of storytelling with a clear-eyed view of the modern world' Sunday Times |
| Reader Age: |
18 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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