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Dr Katy Shaw
Crunch Lit [PDF ebook]

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The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: ‘Crunch Lit’. These ”recession writings” take the financial crisis as their central narrative concern and explore its effects on consumer culture, gender roles and contemporary communities. Examining a range of texts including Sebastian Faulks”
A Week in December, Adam Haslett”s
Union Atlantic, and John Lanchester”s
Capital, this book offers the first wide-ranging guide to these new millennial writings.

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Format PDF ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781472513304 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4503831 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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