Ben Eastham & Jennifer Higgie: The Floating World
London Review Bookshop14 Bury Place
Thu 8 Oct · 19:00 · £10
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Ben Eastham & Jennifer Higgie: The Floating World In The Floating World (Fitzcarraldo) art critic Ben Eastham’s debut novel, billionaire Thanassis Morel is constructing a climate-controlled utopia beneath a vast geodesic dome, promising refuge for the ultra-wealthy from the chaos consuming the outside world. As an art exhibition is prepared to inaugurate this dubious paradise, the strange complicity of art with power is unpicked and wittily unravelled. ‘I don't want to sound mawkish’ writes Luke Kennard, ‘but ultimately it's a novel about our boundless potential to connect, and what we should ultimately value.’ Ben Eastham will be in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, author of Bedlam , The Other Side and The Mirror and the Palette .
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