England, England
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- Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780099526544
- ISBN10 0099526549
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 272
- Any Edició 2011
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
Matèries
Literatura AnglesaEngland, England
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Detalls del llibre
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky, and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it...
One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making, and self-exploration.