John Lanchester
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the island nation of an Earth-like world builds a concrete barrier around its entire coastline, a Defender charged with protecting his section of the Wall from desperate Others trapped outside begins questioning the political divides of his insular existence.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the world of finance and economics really works, from the terms and conditions of personal checking accounts to the deliberate concealments of bankers, and explains hundreds of common economic terms.
4) Capital
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
527 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Residents of Pepys Road in London receive odd, anonymous postcards demanding "We Want What You Have" during the financial meltdown of 2008.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lanchester follows his dystopian novel, The Wall (2019), with eight gothic tales in which he continues to play with genre forms. Like Jennifer Egan in The Keep (2006), Lanchester explores the spectral nature of the digital world. The stories constantly allude to gothic classics by Poe, Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Henry James, and are often set in typical gothic locations--a secluded country house in "Signal," Romania in "Coffin Liquor," and a prison...
9) Mr. Phillips
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
10) Capital
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2016, 2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (189 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story is about the interconnected lives of a diverse group of characters linked to a neighborhood street. One day, the street's residents all receive an anonymous postcard through their front doors bearing a simple message: "We want what you have." Who is behind the anonymous hate campaign? And what do they want? As the mystery of the postcards deepens, interweaving stories reveal lives filled with love and loss, fear and greed, fortune and envy,...