The Sleeping Mountain - Brossura

Harris, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0755102223 ISBN 13: 9780755102228

Casa editrice: House of Stratus Ltd, 2001

Riassunto

The sleepy red-roofed Italian island of Anapoli, its lazy, leaning buildings pushed against the jagged harbor, dreams on peaceably by the sea. It is here that Tom Patch, an easy-going British artist, finds himself discarding his mistress and in love with Cecilia. Even the Mayor of Anapoli basks in the sun, listening to goat bells and the rasp of mandolins. But above the unsuspecting residents hangs a malevolent volcano; a terrible destructive power seething below its crust. And the volcano is about to blow.

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A remarkably convincing picture --The Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

John Harris wrote under his own name and also the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy. He was born in 1916 and educated at Rotherham Grammar School before becoming a journalist on the staff of the local paper. A short period freelancing preceded World War II, during which he served as a corporal attached to the South African Air Force. Moving to the Sheffield Telegraph after the war, he also became known as an accomplished writer and cartoonist. Other “part-time” careers followed. He started writing novels in 1951 and in 1953 had considerable success when his best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them was filmed. He went on to write many more novels under his own name, and also some authoritative nonfiction, such as Dunkirk. Using the name Max Hennessy, he wrote some very accomplished historical fiction, and as Mark Hebden, the Chief Inspector Pel novels, which feature a quirky Burgundian policeman. Harris was a sailor, an airman, a journalist, a travel courier, a cartoonist, and a history teacher, who also managed to squeeze in over eighty books.

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• Editore: House of Stratus Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0755102223
• ISBN 13: 9780755102228
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 318