Arcadia

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23302128317
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Books
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9.99
book_author_name: 
Jim Crace
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Pan Macmillan
published_date: 
04/01/2008
isbn: 
9780330453332
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Books > Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction
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Jim Crace|Paperback|Pan Macmillan|04/01/2008
Merchant Product Id: 
9780330453332
Book Description: 
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.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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