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A Week in December

De : Sebastian Faulks
Lu par : Dan Stevens
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Seven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtual worlds of religious extremism, financial gambling, drugs and internet obsession they inhabit. But it is 2007, the Crash is coming, and all will face a terrible reckoning.

A Week in December is a dazzling and darkly comic state-of-the-nation novel.

'A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES
'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR
'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARD

© Sebastian Faulks 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

 Fiction Fiction contemporaine Fêtes Humour noir Littérature et fiction Vie urbaine

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Richly entertaining and highly rewarding
During times of momentous change, men of letters are driven to produce works that fictionalise the state of the nation, linking individuals with historic events. The 19th century gave us Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and Trollope's The Way We Live Now; the 21st has given us Sebastian Faulks's A Week in December
Often edgily satirical, sometimes deeply affecting, A Week in December grasps its headline motifs with the strong and supple hands of a master
Hilarious... The satire is so vicious that at times it's like reading a Tom Sharpe novel
This vast novel, well-plotted and gripping throughout, is the first that Sebastian Faulks has set in our time...the ambition and scope of the book are to be applauded. The conclusion is suitably nail-biting and, pleasingly, love triumphs. Sebastian Faulks has probably got another best-seller on his hands
A zeitgeisty novel about the effects of greed, celebrity, the electronic age and the fragmentation of urban life. It's gripping stuff...sweeping and satirical, A Week in December is a thrilling state-of-the-nation novel
The novel is cleverly plotted and eminently readable
Faulks never writes a hackneyed or lazy sentence, polishing each with care
Page-turning portrait of noughties' London
One can't mistake Faulk's ambition, and his take on the contemporary life is never less than readable
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