Book description
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from
the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from
the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his
impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on
the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below
him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city - one as indelible
and disruptive as the mark the city left on him. 'A deeply satisfying
read, in which each well-turned phrase resounds in every finely tuned
sentence' Mail on Sunday 'Presents his heavily politicised vision at its
most ambitious and also at its most Ballard-like' Irish Times 'One of
the most beautifully written books in years' Sunday Telegraph
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia,
Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year;
shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book
Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, Six and The Pesthouse. His
novels have been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim
Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
