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My Revolutions
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My Revolutions Hardcover - 2008

by Kunzru, Hari

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Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Granta dubbed him 'one of the twenty best fiction writers under forty.' Now Hari Kunzru delivers his 'finest novel yet . . . bringing to the angry activism of the young in the late sixties all the suspense of a spy thriller.' (Lisa Appignanesi, author of Unholy Loves)

Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student in the sixties he briefly became a terrorist protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. And then one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run.

As Chris flees, he remembers his days as an isolated youth, hopelessly in love with Anna Addison, following her as she threw aside conventionality. Chris's rival for Anna's affections, the charismatic Sean Ward, was the leader of the radical August 14th Group. Egging one another on, the three inched closer and closer to the edge, until the events of one horrifying night forced them apart, never to see one another again.

Gripping, moving, provocative, and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life both the radical idealism of the sixties and the darker currents that ran beneath it, the eddies of which still shape our history today.

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  • Title My Revolutions
  • Author Kunzru, Hari
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
  • Date January 24, 2008
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP92970538
  • ISBN 9780525949329 / 0525949321
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.49 x 1.04 in (22.96 x 16.48 x 2.64 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Identity (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007039459
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Critics have compared him to Martin Amis, Zadie Smith, Tom Wolfe, and Don DeLillo. Grantadubbed him "one of the twenty best fiction writers under forty." Now Hari Kunzru delivers his"finest novel yet . . . bringing to the angry activism of the young in the late sixties all the suspenseof a spy thriller." (Lisa Appignanesi, author of Unholy Loves)Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know himas Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no idea that as a radical student in the sixties hebriefly became a terrorist—protesting the Vietnam War by setting bombs around London. Andthen one day a ghost from his past turns up on his doorstep, forcing Chris on the run.As Chris flees, he remembers his days as an isolated youth, hopelessly in love with AnnaAddison, following her as she threw aside conventionality. Chris's rival for Anna's affections, thecharismatic Sean Ward, was the leader of the radical August 14th Group. Egging one another on,the three inched closer and closer to the edge, until the events of one horrifying night forced themapart, never to see one another again.Gripping, moving, provocative, and passionate, My Revolutions brings to brilliant life boththe radical idealism of the sixties and the darker currents that ran beneath it, the eddies of whichstill shape our history today.

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'Captures the muddled idealism of the young and its easy perversion into violence . . . and offers some clues to a better understanding of terrorism today. It's a daringly ambitious thing for a writer to attempt, but he pulls it off for a thrilling and moving read.'
--Daily Mail

'An urgent and passionate piece of work . . . fairly afire with an anger on behalf of the world's dispossessed and powerless that is so conspicuously absent from much cozy and collusive current fiction.'
--The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

'A sharp reminder, as sharp as tomorrow's headlines, of how the past will insist on haunting the present. Hari Kunzru writes a clear, clean, elegant prose, and his presentation of political realities is worryingly real.'
--John Banville, author of The Sea

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