A BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, INDEPENDENT, SCOTSMAN AND THE NEW YORKER'Extraordinary.' MARINA HYDE'Pitch-perfect.' OBSERVER'An utter joy to read.' MONICA ALI'Majestic.' INDEPENDENT'A masterpiece.' JOHN LANCHESTER'Addictively enjoyable.' GUARDIAN'Sensational.' IRISH INDEPENDENTA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTIONHe always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.Campbell Flynn is fuelled by an appetite for wealth and admiration, controversy and novelty. An art historian and celebrity pundit, he has enjoyed a charmed career rubbing shoulders with oligarchs and aristocrats, fashion designers and fine artists, at ease with the highbrow and the mainstream.Only now, the world is changing. Over the course of an incendiary year a web of secrets and crimes will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves.Andrew O'Hagan's novel Caledonian Road was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 31/03/2024
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From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.
'A pitch-perfect tragicomedy of manners . . . a book - it's hard to resist the word Dickensian - that feels as near an authentic slice of contemporary London life as any packed tube carriage.'
From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571381357
Publisert
2024-04-04
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
975 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
41 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
656

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Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Editor-at-Large of the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.