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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven 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 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, and the group is forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. Sweeping, satirical, Dickensian in scope, A Week in December is a thrilling state of the nation novel from a master of literary fiction.

Fiction & Poetry >> Modern & contemporary fiction post c 1945 Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: 02/09/2010 ISBN-13: 9780099458289  Details: Type: Paperback Format: Books
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Quick off the mark with a 'credit crunch' novel, Faulks' first foray into contemporary fiction, following the huge success of historical novels such as Birdsong and his revitalisation of the Bond franchise with Devil May Care, is an articulate commentary on the fears of all of us for the future. From a world of prosperity where, to quote Douglas Adams, "no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of", suddenly we all became vulnerable to the vicissitudes of the global economy.

A Week in December is set just after the collapse of Northern Rock and follows the fortunes of seven very different characters as their lives are changed fundamentally by events in the wider world. From the hedge fund manager still determined to pull off the deal which will set him up for life to the disaffected Muslim youth drawn to fundamentalist principles, the embittered book reviewer to the tube train driver literally going round in circles, this is a thoughtfully rendered portrait of a society forced to confront uncomfortable truths and make hard choices. - Millicent.

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