A painting of the years Thatcher

Michael Bracewell, essayist born in London from which two of the novels were translated into France (A tremendous epoch, The Amateur, 2002, and Saint Rachel, The Amateur, on 2004) sign in this novel the sublime and miserable portrait of a young man tried to establish an intangible link between money and taste. A book become worship in England all over its painting without fault of the years Thatcher.

Novel of Michael Bracewell
Editions Phebus
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Sons of middle classes born in the suburban suburbs of London, Martin Knight shows themselves a delicate child. Then a sensitive, romantic teenager, a narcissique, resolutely aesthete. In the narrow in his middle, Martin dreams to rise, to achieve beauty better. Where to find the key of dreams? Light of the City points the way out to him: the mediocre pupil will be able to grab chance that the capital under epoch Thatcher gives in the ambitious. Chance rhymes then with finance. And love in all this? When Martin meets Marilyn, elegant young woman coming from the intellectual middle classes, he believes he sees represented all his aspirations.
A very English novel, a flawless story disillusioned for which L emotional Education acts as model. To discover absolutely.
sources: Phebus 2008