Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city – one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.
Arcadia
ISBN: 0140276009
ISBN 13: 9780140276008
Publication Date: 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Author: Jim Crace
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