Capital: A Novel

By John Lanchester | Literature and Fiction books | DMCA

From the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (“an elegant and wonderfully witty writer”―New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys...

Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (June 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393082075
ISBN-13: 978-0393082074
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.7 x 9.6 inches
Amazon Rank: 1078215
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook

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