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Capital A Novel

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ISBN-10: 0393345092

ISBN-13: 9780393345094

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Lanchester

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Celebrated novelist JohnLanchester (author of The Debt to Pleasure) returns with an epic novel that captures theobsessions of our time. It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearnsand Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London—abanker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumor and hergraffiti-artist grandson, Pakistani shop owners and a shadowy refugee who worksas the meter maid, the young soccer star from Senegal and his minder—arereceiving anonymous postcards reading “We Want What You Have.” Who is behindit? What do they want? Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinarydramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

John Lanchester was the deputy editor of the London Review of Books and the restaurant critic for the London Observer. He is the author of a second novel, Mr. Phillips, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker. He lives in London.