Description
| Product ID: | 9780099523840 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Heliopolis |
| Authors: | Author: James Scudamore |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling metropolis of São Paulo for a vacuous ''communications company''. But this is not his world, and this is not a simple rags-to-riches story: Ludo''s destiny moves him around like a chess piece, showing him both extremities of opulent excess and abject poverty, taking him to the brink of madness and brutality. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-02-04 |
