
You Don't Have To Live Like This : From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
by Benjamin Markovits
Title:
You Don't Have To Live Like This : From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives
Author:
Benjamin Markovits
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
400 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571313426
EAN:
9780571313426
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
446
Dimensions (mm):
198 x 130 x 25
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZETen years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. 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.'Intense and very funny.' Guardian, 'Best Novels of 2015''Is Markovits contemporary fiction's best kept secret?' Independent on Sunday'Remarkable.' Irish Independent'Multi-stranded and gripping.' Sunday Times















