The First Day in Paradise
- ISBN-10
- 1785352369
- ISBN-13
- 9781785352362
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 424
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-02-26
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Author
- Stuart Walton
Description
The First Day in Paradise tells the story of a young orphaned family who have been passed on from one set of relations to another, and whose eldest sibling, Adam, becomes enthralled by the impending opening nearby of a gigantic and beautiful shopping-mall by a flamboyant entrepreneur. To the consternation of his aunt and uncle, who run a small business, he joins the staff of one of its stores, and begins a dizzying ascent through the ranks, until circumstances induce him to question whether his entire value-system has become corrupted. Functioning both as social-economic critique, and as a personal moral fable about the conjuration of ambition from present-day consumer culture, The First Day in Paradise is an engrossing and layered tale loosely modelled on Dante's Paradiso, but most of all it's simply a great read.
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