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Title	:	Capital
Author	:	John Lanchester
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 528 pages
Published	:	May 28th 2013 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. European Literature. British Literature

Capital

John Lanchester

Paperback | Pages: 528 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 12134 Users | 1366 Reviews

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Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (author of The Debt to Pleasure) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time.

It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London—a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumor and her graffiti-artist grandson, Pakistani shop owners and a shadowy refugee who works as the meter maid, the young soccer star from Senegal and his minder—are receiving anonymous postcards reading “We Want What You Have.” Who is behind it? What do they want?

Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment of extraordinary tension.

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Original Title:	Capital
ISBN:	0393345092 (ISBN13: 9780393345094)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	London, England,2007(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2012)

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I was eager to read this, as I liked Fragrant Harbor, but Capital was a disappointment. Its easy to see what it was aiming at: something along the lines of a literary equivalent of Altmans Short Cuts or Paul Haggiss Crash, crafting a collective portrait of contemporary London through the intersecting lives of a series of inhabitants of a single street in Clapham. It is set before and after the 2008 financial meltdowna timeline that allows the novel to tap into a vein of dramatic irony as we

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Another masterful novel by LanchesterI'm now officially a member of the John Lanchester fan club. I've read three of his novels: Mr. Phillips, The Debt to Pleasure and now Capital. What strikes me as remarkable about Lanchester's novels is that they are all so utterly different in topic and in tone, and I'd happily reread each one multiple times to relive the reading experience of being absorbed in the novel and in awe of his writing.Capital is one of those luxuriously long,

This book is almost a pure delight. Sprawling in scope (the City, property, money, the upper-middle classes, the immigrant classes, sport, sport as business, work, love, and did I say property?), deeply insightful, and thoroughly engaging. It's set largely on the (fictionalized) Pepys Road (an inspired name), which affords Lanchester a view that is both microscopic and macroscopic:"Over its history, almost everything that could have happened in the street had happened. Many, many people had

What a cool book! It follows the lives of the residents of a posh street in London around the time of the financial crisis. Although there is a bit of mystery at the heart of the novel, I was just fascinated by the peek inside the lives of the well-to-do--and the people who worked for them. I picked it up right before I went on vacation and it was the perfect airplane novel.

3.5 rating is about what I'd give "Capital". This is one of those EXPANSIVE NOVELS ---...Four Parts...varied characters...small mystery...Pepys Road, (the community), on the brink of financial crisis in London, 2008If you think you'd enjoy to read about the homes, streets, shops, historic city of London....With Family Drama---You like long GRAND EXPANSIVE NOVELS ---- Then you'll enjoy this book!If in a hurry--- you might get bored -- Me: I'm in the 'middle'. I did enjoy this book, yet ---I think

Multi-narrator story, which means that the book (although much longer than Mr. Phillips or The Debt to Pleasure) does not seem too long, and in fact draws the reader in. The book tells the story of the various inhabitants of a South London street (and those who interact with them) of now desirable expensive homes, during four separate months over 2008. Enjoyable although lacking real depth or a particularly strong ending.