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ARLINGTON PARK
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| By: |
Rachel Cusk |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
057122847X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571228478 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2006 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Amid the leafy avenues and comfortable houses, the residents of Arlington park live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. Men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's expected of them. |
| Synopsis: |
Amid the leafy avenues and comfortable houses, the residents of Arlington park live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. Men work, women look after children, and people generally do what's expected of them. Set over the course of a single rainy day, this novel moves from one household to another, and through the passing hours conducts a deep examination of its characters' lives: of Juliet, enranged at the victory of men over women in family life; of Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; of Solly, who confronts her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger; of Maisie, despairing at the inevitability with which beauty is destroyed; and of Christine, whose troubled, hilarious spirit presides over Arlington Park and the way of life it represents. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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