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Description for Gaveston
Paperback. Gaby Harvey's uncle is a media baron who is keen on setting up a privatized media faculty at the university where she works as a researcher. His choice of professor is Piers Gaveston, a narcissistic type whom Gaby finds both repulsive and attractive. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 134 x 30. Weight in Grams: 450. Fine copy
A cool and elegant debut novel, a satire on our fascination with the media and the private lives of the powerful, and a story of obsessive infatuation. Gaby Harvey is a young historian engaged in research at St Dunstan's College. She is also the niece of Sir Edward Hamilton Harvey, a media baron with international interests ranging from film and television to newspapers. His latest venture is a controversial new privatised media faculty at the ancient and traditional university where Gaby lives quietly, away from her uncle's world. Why is Sir Edward so determined to make this investment, and why ... Read more
A cool and elegant debut novel, a satire on our fascination with the media and the private lives of the powerful, and a story of obsessive infatuation. Gaby Harvey is a young historian engaged in research at St Dunstan's College. She is also the niece of Sir Edward Hamilton Harvey, a media baron with international interests ranging from film and television to newspapers. His latest venture is a controversial new privatised media faculty at the ancient and traditional university where Gaby lives quietly, away from her uncle's world. Why is Sir Edward so determined to make this investment, and why ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571210558
SKU
KSS0000950
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Stephanie Merritt
Stephanie Merritt was born in Surrey in 1974. She has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines and is currently Deputy Literary Editor and comedy critic of the Observer. Gaveston is her first novel.
Reviews for Gaveston
Young research historian Gaby Harvey's uncle is a media baron whose latest venture is a controversial privatised media facility at the ancient and traditional university where she works. And his new appointee is the handsome Piers Galveston with whom Gabby finds herself drawn into an obsessive relationship. But why is he so interested in her - and what is his ... Read more