One Big Damn Puzzler - Brossura

Harding, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061132187 ISBN 13: 9780061132186

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2007

Riassunto

The lives of Managua and the other inhabitants of a South Pacific island are turned upside down as the realities of the twenty-first century collide headlong with a peaceful, unsullied island paradise, thanks to the arrival of a young American lawyer with misguided plans to win reparations for the island's inhabitants. Reader's Guide available. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

John Harding was born in a small Fenland village in the Isle of Ely in 1951. He studied English at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and worked as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor before becoming a freelance writer. Harding is the author of two previous novels, What We Did on Our Holiday, which was shortlisted for the WH Smith New Talent Award, and the acclaimed While the Sun Shines. He lives in Richmond upon Thames with his wife and two sons.

Product Description:

On an island paradise somewhere in the South Pacific, Managua--the only native who can read or write--is busily translating Hamlet into pidgin English when a plane interrupts his noble work. Strapping on his false leg, he makes his way to the landing strip to greet the unexpected arrival: William Hardt, a young American lawyer driven by his misguided ambition to win reparations for the island's inhabitants. Hardt is not the first white outsider to pay a visit; the British came earlier, bringing their language, the small pigs that run wild in the jungle, and Shakespeare . . . and the Americans followed with guns, land mines, and Coca-Cola. But in this place of riotously logical ritual, Hardt's determined quest to do good could make him the most devastating visitor of all. Profoundly moving and achingly funny, One Big Damn Puzzler brilliantly explores the collision of the twenty-first century with unsullied pagan reality--and establishes John Harding as one of the most imaginative contemporary chroniclers of the human condition.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0061132187
• ISBN 13: 9780061132186
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 489