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England, England
- Narrated by: Julian Wadham
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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England, England
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous, risky and vastly successful. In fact, it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it....
One of Barnes' finest and funniest novels, England, England calls into question the idea of replicas, truth vs fiction, reality vs art, nationhood, myth-making and self-exploration.
Critic Reviews
"A brilliant, Swiftian fantasy." (The Economist)
