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Tycoonery: A Novel

Tycoonery: A Novel

by RogerSmith (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

    $4.28
Synopsis

Stuck in a loveless marriage with the local grocer in small-town Kent, Maureen Harding's life is drab and uneventful. Uneventful, that is, until property tycoon David Adler, working-class boy made good, descends on the local community with ambitions to buy up and knock down the town center, intending to construct a modern shopping mall in its place. Among the buildings Adler wants is the grocer's - and he also wants Maureen. As big businessman comes up against local tradesman, a man more concerned to hold onto his shop than his wife, events hasten towards an explosive denouement. Seen through the eyes of David Adler's old school friend, the cynical, donnish George Timmins, Tycoonery is awry, ironic novel of financial and amorous desire in 1970s England.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 194
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 02 Aug 2012
ISBN 10: 1844678989
ISBN 13: 9781844678983

Media Reviews
Witty and full of surprises, a realist fable for our times. Jenni Diski; An extraordinary and timely novel. He writes with a frankness and honesty that I find both compelling and deeply moving. Hanif Kureishi; A witty, sharply observed story of aspiration, self-delusion and lust. Ken Loach; Tycoonery has everything you could ask for in a book. It has grace, pace, good taste, and is thrilling from one end to the other. It also has brilliant political vision. Buy a copy for everybody you know or else fuck off and die. Andrew O'Hagan; Ironic, intelligent and grimly funny voices from the past remind us what a mess we're in today. Stephen Frears
Author Bio
ROGER SMITH has written for television and films since the early sixties; his screenplays include Up the Junction. He has worked with Ken Loach as a script consultant for the past fifteen years and is also a theater director. Tycoonery is his first novel.