Armadillo - Brossura

Boyd, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375702164 ISBN 13: 9780375702167

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 2000

Riassunto

Ambitious, young insurance adjuster Lorimer Black finds his life turned upside down by a series of bizarre eventsincluding his discovery of a hanged man, an odd new business associate, a rock musician threatened by insanity, and a beautiful actress. By the author of An IceCream War. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"[T]his novel is everything good fiction should be."  --The Washington Post Book World

"Combines a touch of Dickensian realistic comedy with a Kafkaesque sense of modern urban terror. . . . [William Boyd] has a rare talent." --The Baltimore Sun

"Boyd has a frisky style . . . that will keep you chortling . . . all the way to the end." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The storytelling talents that marked Mr. Boyd's earlier books are fully in evidence in this entertaining novel." --The New York Times

L'autore:

William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.

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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375702164
• ISBN 13: 9780375702167
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352