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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Mai 2012
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
	1837–1901 (Victorian period) / c 1800 to c 1900 / England / Modern and contemporary fiction / Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)
ISBN:	9780099531999
EAN-Code:	9780099531999
Verlag:	Random House Uk
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 198 mm / B 129 mm / D 25 mm
Gewicht:	288 gr
Seiten:	416
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Inhalt:

It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for the greatest race of the year. All through winter, from London to France, plans have been laid, money exchanged, disputes begun. And uniting the destinies of old Mr Gresham and his tigerish daughter, the rakish Mr Happerton and his crony Captain Raff, brooding Mr Davenant, Mr Pardew the burglar and detective Captain McTurk is the champion horse Tiberius. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.