A01=Maggie Gee
absurdity
apocalypse
astrologer
Author_Maggie Gee
blocks
boys
capitalism
Category=FBA
chaos
city
class
climax
clouds
crisis
culture
daughter
distraction
drama
dystopia
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family
fanaticism
floods
gala
government
Harold
inequality
irony
jazz
Lola
Lottie
media
opera
politics
poor
prediction
propaganda
rain
rebellion
religion
rich
satire
school
sect
Shirley
society
spectacle
sun
teenager
tower
twins
war
weather
zoo
Product details
- ISBN 9780863565120
- Weight: 291g
- Dimensions: 130 x 195mm
- Publication Date: 11 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Saqi Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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President Bliss is handling a tricky situation with customary brio, but after months of ceaseless rain the city is sinking under the floods. The rich are safe on high ground, but the poor are getting damper in their packed tower blocks, and the fanatical 'Last Days' sect is recruiting thousands ... When at last the sun breaks through the clouds Lottie heads off to the opera, husband Harold listens to jazz and their ditsy teenage daughter Lola fights capitalism by bunking off school. Shirley takes her twin boys to the zoo. The Government - eager to detract attention from a foreign war it has waged - announces a spectacular City Gala. But not even TV astrologer Davey Lucas can predict the extraordinary climax that ensues.
Maggie Gee was chosen as one of Granta's 'Best Young British Novelists' in 1983. Since then she has published eight novels to great acclaim, including Grace, The Ice People and Light Years. Her last novel, The White Family (Saqi), was short-listed for the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction and for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2004. She is the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.
