Cat O'nine Tales - Rilegato

Archer, Jeffrey

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ISBN 10: 0312362641 ISBN 13: 9780312362645

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2007

Riassunto

A fifth collection of short stories by the best-selling author of False Impressions features one dozen pieces that include the tales "The Red King," "The Commissioner," and "Charity Begins at Home." 200,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Jeffrey Archer was educated at Oxford University. He has served five years in Britain’s House of Commons, fourteen years in the House of Lords, and two in Her Majesty’s prisons, which spawned three volumes of highly acclaimed Prison Diaries. All of his novels and short-story collections---including Kane and Abel, Sons of Fortune, and most recently False Impression---have been international bestsellers, selling over 125 million copies worldwide. Archer is married with two children and lives in London and Cambridge.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

“A storyteller in the class of Alexander Dumas. . . Unsurpassed skill...making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next.”
---The Washington Post Cat o’Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller. Ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer’s trademark of deliciously unexpected conclusions, this new collection has the added bonus of thirteen charming illustrations by the internationally acclaimed artist Ronald Searle.
 
Some of these twelve stories were inspired by the two years Jeffrey Archer spent in prison, including the story of a company chairman who tries to poison his wife while on a trip to St. Petersburg---with unexpected consequences. “The Red King” is a tale about a con man who discovers that an English lord requires one more chess piece to complete a set that would be worth a fortune. In another tale of deception, “The Commissioner,” a Bombay con artist ends up in the morgue after he uses the police chief as bait in his latest scam. “The Perfect Murder” reveals how a convict manages to remove an old enemy while he’s locked up in jail, and then set up two prison officers as his alibi. In “Charity Begins at Home,” an accountant realizes he has achieved nothing in his life, and sets out to make a fortune before he retires. And then there is Archer’s favorite, “In the Eye of the Beholder,” in which a handsome star athlete falls in love with a three-hundred-pound woman . . . who happens to be the ninth-richest woman in Italy.

Jeffrey Archer is the only author to have topped international bestseller lists with his fiction, nonfiction, and short stories.Cat o’Nine Tales is Archer at his best: witty, poignant, sad, surprising, and unforgettable.

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312362641
• ISBN 13: 9780312362645
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384