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You Don't Have To Live Like This by Markovits, Benjamin

ISBN: 9780571313426 PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 304 PUBLICATION DATE: 7.07.2016 DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Ten years out of Yale, with an extra degree from Oxford, and all Greg Marnier has to show for it is a rambling academic career that has landed him in Aberystwyth. At his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk, he runs into an old friend who offers him an extraordinary way out.Robert James, wealthy and influential, a success story of the dotcom bubble, wants to become a political player. His plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit the poster child for urban decline and build a new America from their boardedup ruins. For a small investment, Marnier can transform himself into a twentyfirstcentury pioneer. The realities of life on America's urban frontier soon become apparent. For every hopeful misfit who's come for a fresh start there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by the new colonials. Marnier finds himself caught in the middle of everyone else's battles between local and outsider, rich and poor, black and white until a terrible accident forces him to take sides.

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