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Natural elementsRichard Mason

Natural elements

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In his much celebrated debut novel, The Drowning People, Richard Mason ("An Oxonian literary sensation"—The New York Times Book Review) wrote with wisdom and mastery well beyond his twenty-one years—about love, betrayal, and revenge, and about the particular ritualized world of the English upper class. Now in his dazzling new novel Mason writes about mothers and daughters; aging and death; memory and longing; history and narrative; and about the high-stakes, full-tilt embrace of life. The setting is London. The time is the present. Mother and daughter are choosing an assisted-living facility…

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Editions

2 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EbookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2009—9780307271426
EditionAlfred A. Knopf2009—9780307267467
FictionCommodity futuresPianistsWomen capitalists and financiersEnglishParent and adult child