You Don't Have To Live Like This

From the 2025 Booker shortlisted author of The Rest of Our Lives

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE Ten years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. But for every urban misfit who's come for a fresh start, there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials. 'Intense and very funny.' Guardian, 'Best Novels of 2015' 'Is Markovits contemporary fiction's best kept secret?' Independent on Sunday... alles anzeigen expand_more

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE 21ST CENTURY



WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE





Ten years out of Yale and drifting, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now influential and wealthy from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. But for every urban misfit who's come for a fresh start, there's a native Detroiter whose patch is being swallowed up by these new young colonials.





'Intense and very funny.' Guardian, 'Best Novels of 2015'



'Is Markovits contemporary fiction's best kept secret?' Independent on Sunday



'Remarkable.' Irish Independent



'Multi-stranded and gripping.' Sunday Times



Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas, London and Berlin. He is the author of six previous novels: The Syme Papers, Either Side of Winter, Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment, Playing Days and Childish Loves. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times, among other publications. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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  • Autor find_in_page Benjamin Markovits
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  • Verlag find_in_page Faber & Faber
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  • Veröffentlichung 30.06.2015
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