Armadillo: A Novel - Rilegato

Boyd, William

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375402233 ISBN 13: 9780375402234

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black - insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise - goes out on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, finds a hanged man and realizes that his life is about to be turned upside down. The elements at play: a beautiful actress glimpsed in a passing taxi . . . an odd new business associate whose hiring, firing and rehiring make little sense . . . a rock musician who is losing his mind - and a web of fraud in which virtually everyone Lorimer Black knows has been caught and in which he finds himself increasingly entangled.

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Recensione:

"Darkly comic"
--Booklist

"Everything good fiction should be...It begins with a jolt...and then goes on to become even
better"        
--David Nicholson, Washington Post

"A satirical noir...probing, droll, and full of rewards"        
--Ben Greenman, Time Out

"A real page-turner"
--The Observer, London

"Zesty & brilliantly on-target...Lorimer's adventures have enough of an alarming edge to keep a reader constantly, and delightedly, off balance"        
--Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

William Boyd was born in Ghana and educated at the universities of Nice, Glasgow and Oxford.  His first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won the 1981 Whitbread Prize and the 1982 Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was winner of the 1982 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize.  He is also the author of the novels Stars and Bars and The New Confessions, and On the Yankee Station, a collection of short stories. Brazzaville Beach, published in 1990, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
        
Boyd's screenplays include Mr. Johnson, based on the Joyce Cary novel, which was filmed in Africa and directed by Bruce Beresford.  Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, from the book by Mario Vargas Llosa, was directed by Jon Amiel and starred Peter Falk and Barbara Hershey.  He co-wrote the screenplay for Richard Attenborough's Chaplin, which starred Robert Downey, Jr. He lives in London and Paris, France.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375402233
• ISBN 13: 9780375402234
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 337