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The Bricks That Built the Houses

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The Bricks That Built the Houses

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Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones? Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and crassly loud clubs--to the first time Becky and Harry meet. It sprawls through their lives and those they touch--of their families and friends and faces on the street--revealing intimacies and the moments that make them. And it captures the contemporary struggle of urban life, of young people seeking jobs or juggling jobs, harboring ambitions and making compromises. The Bricks that Built the Houses is an unexpected love story. It's about being young, but being part of something old. It's about how we become ourselves, and how we effect our futures. Rich in character and restless in perspective, driven by ethics and empathy, it asks--and seeks to answer--how best to live with and love one another. Kate Tempest, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds, sits poised to become a major novelist as well.
Product details
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2016-05-03
Publication Date:
2016-05-03
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1620409011
ISBN13:
9781620409015
Weight:
590 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
38 cm
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