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Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance Matthew Kneale

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance By Matthew Kneale

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale


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Summary

From the bestselling author of English Passengers, a collection of stories - funny, wise, audacious and exquisitely told - which, combined, build a powerful literary meditation on the world today.

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance Summary

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale

In his gripping new work, Matthew Kneale takes us on a journey around today's uncertain world. From England to South America, China to the Middle East, the United States to Africa, Kneale applies his gifts as a master storyteller, vividly capturing the lives of ordinary people as they struggle to live, and to do the right thing, often managing neither.

From a smugly well-intentioned English family who leave their tour group in China to travel alone, and slowly becoming complicit in its violence, to a ploddingly respectable London lawyer who chances upon a stash of cocaine and discovers it offers the wealth and status he hungers for, to a self-doubting suicide bomber, Matthew Kneale transports readers across frontiers in an instant. He sets the foreign and the familiar side by side, and in doing so challenges our understanding of both.

By turns painful, moving and wickedly funny, Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance gains momentum until the world seems to be revealed to us in a new way. This is a groundbreaking work by a master of the uncertainties of our time.

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance Reviews

"That the [stories] evoke responses ranging from surprise and laughter to shock and horror is testament to the skill of a first-rate storyteller."
--"The Gazette" (Montreal)
"Kneale . . . has a gift for spinning whole cloth when it comes to settings, [without] a loose thread in the lot."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"Kneale . . . has produced a series of compelling narrative jaunts which have a kind of licensed freedom of thought."
--"The Observer "(UK)
Praise for "English Passengers," winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 2000, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize:
"English Passengers is what fiction ought to be: ambitious, narrative-driven, with a story and a quest we don't mind going on. On page after page I found myself laughing or nodding or simply envious. --Nicholas Shakespeare, author of Bruce Chatwin: A Biography
"A robust intellectual entertainment: a comic sea-adventure, survival tale and quest for the Garden of Eden all rolled into one."
--"The Globe and Mail"
"Every page fizzes with linguistic invention, and the interweaving of high comedy with dramatic terror is expertly handled."
--"The Guardian"
"Sometimes a book comes along so full of wit and charm that it makes you glad you learned to read."
--"Houston Chronicle"

About Matthew Kneale

Matthew Kneale lives in Rome with his wife and two children. His bestselling novel English Passengers was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award . His other awards include the Somerset Maugham Prize (for Mr. Foreigner ) and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for Sweet Thames).

Additional information

GOR003502377
9780330435345
0330435345
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance by Matthew Kneale
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2005-03-04
288
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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