Wake Up

by TimPears (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.29

  Early nineteenth-century France had Balzac, we have Tim Pears - The Times . For John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's also something wondrous, the secret of his success and the key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned his father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in potatoes. Now, he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an edible alternative to injections. But as John spins round and round the ring road avoiding his turn off to work he has to figure out how to tell his brother that deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal trials. Deaths that they have to find some way to hide. Wake up is a book about our times, and how we are hurtling, almost silently, into a new age with implications that are unfathomable. Funny, fluent, and provocative it is a major new novel from one of our finest contemporary writers. Wake up is a book about our times, and how we are hurtling, almost silently, into a new age with implications that are unfathomable.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $7.27

  Early nineteenth-century France had Balzac, we have Tim Pears - The Times . Tim Pears specialises in grand panoramas of our national life: teeming casts and multi-tracked plotting heavy with the scent of zeitgeist - Guardian . His genius lies in telling a story - Daily Telegraph . In this, his fourth novel, the highly acclaimed novelist Tim Pears again creates a unique portrait of the world in which we live. John is a successful businessman, happily married with a wife and baby. Why is he circling the ring road of his city, unable to face his family, his work, his brother? As he passes the same exit again and again, his life unfolds in front of the reader. And as the story progress, it becomes steadily more sinister as we are forced to see the dilemma at the heart of this novel - how well do we ever know those we work with, live with, place our trust in? This gripping novel is a stunning exploration into what it means to live in these times and who exactly is the enemy.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $6.03

  Early nineteenth-century France had Balzac, we have Tim Pears - The Times . For John, a potato isn't just a staple food, it's also something wondrous, the secret of his success and the key to the future. With his brother, Greg, he has turned his father's greengrocery business into Spudnik, Britain's largest dealer in potatoes. Now he wants to change the world by introducing, through potatoes, edible vaccines: plants genetically modified to provide an edible alternative to injections. But as John spins round and round the ring road avoiding his turn off to work he has to figure out how to tell his brother that deep in the Venezuelan jungle, volunteers have died during the latest illegal trials. Deaths that they have to find some way to hide. Wake Up is a book about our times, and how we are hurtling, almost silently, into a new age with implications that are unfathomable. Funny, fluent, and provocative, it is major new novel from one of our finest contemporary writers.