Andrew O'Hagan's Bonfire of the Vanities
Briefly

In the North London neighborhood of Islington, the colors run up against one another. Deep blue ('Poor') bleeds into pink ('Fairly comfortable'), and red ('Well-to-do'): the rich and poor living side by side.
One such house-floor-to-ceiling sash windows; Aga range in the kitchen-belongs to Campbell Flynn, the doomed protagonist of Andrew O'Hagan's sprawling new novel of contemporary London, 'Caledonian Road,' out this month in the U.S.
Read at The New Yorker
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