Stars and Bars: A Novel - Brossura

Boyd, William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375705015 ISBN 13: 9780375705014

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

Riassunto

British-born Henderson Dores, an art appraiser at Mulholland, Melhuish Fine Arts Gallery in New York City, is sent to value reclusive millionaire Loomis Gage's collection, in a satirical look at the misadventures of a proper Englishman in the Big Apple and the Deep South. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“William Boyd has written a perfect book. He is funnier than Evelyn Waugh.”–Los Angeles Times

“Stands in the great tradition of the English comic novel.”–The Boston Globe

“There’s hardly a writer around whose work offers more pleasure and satisfaction.”–The Washington Post

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 Afternoonwon the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375705015
• ISBN 13: 9780375705014
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336