Publication

2012-09-27 - Little, Brown and Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

125,750 words, Guess

Page Count

503 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 9 more
  • ISBN-100316228540
  • ISBN-100316228532
  • ISBN-139780316228534
  • ISBN-139780316228541
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012943788
  • OCLC Control Number799893657
  • Better World Books9780316228541
  • Better World Books9780316228534
  • Open LibraryOL26261870M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6068.O93 C37 2012
  • LCCPR6068.O93C37 2012

Description

When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, *The Casual Vacancy* is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

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