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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now wealthy and influential from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. For a small investment, Greg can turn himself into a twentieth-century pioneer. But for every urban misfit who''s come for a fresh start, there''s a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials. Soon, the realities of life on America''s urban frontier become all too apparent . . .
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now wealthy and influential from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. For a small investment, Greg can turn himself into a twentieth-century pioneer. But for every urban misfit who''s come for a fresh start, there''s a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials. Soon, the realities of life on America''s urban frontier become all too apparent . . .
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
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| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 392 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780571313426 |
| ISBN-10: | 0571313426 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Markovits, Benjamin |
| Auflage: | Main |
| Hersteller: | Faber & Faber |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 27 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Benjamin Markovits |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.07.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,315 kg |