Arcadia

Arcadia

Paperback (12 Mar 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

For Victor's eightieth birthday, his right-hand man Hook prepares a special celebration - a country feast in the heart of the city, twenty-seven storeys up. But Victor is making preparations of his own to leave his mark on the city as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him. The scene is set for Arcadia, the dream of those who live in cities . . .

'Twice as long as Continent and The Gift of Stones, Arcadia leaps the broader span with fluent, witty and pyrotechnic ease' Michael Ratcliffe, Observer

'Not since Moby Dick has blank verse thrummed so relentlessly beneath the surface of prose . . . the effect is thrilling' Adam Mars-Jones, Independent

'Sentence for sentence, it must be one of the most beautifully written books in years' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330325233
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 346
Weight: 235g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 197mm