The Walking Stick - Brossura

Graham, Winston

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1447254554 ISBN 13: 9781447254553

Casa editrice: Bello, 2013

Riassunto

From the author of Poldark, the bestselling book and hit television series. Ever since a fateful accident occurred in her childhood, crippling her for life, twenty-six year old Deborah Dainton has lacked confidence. Although convinced of her unattractiveness to men, she gradually becomes persuaded by one man's love for her and blossoms into a life of romance. But each step into this relationship plunges her further into a sinister and dangerous enterprise . . . With his signature masterly detail, Winston Graham unfolds a high drama crisis minute by minute through captivating characters and shocking consequences in The Walking Stick.

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Descrizione del libro:

A story of love, crime and deception from the author of the Poldark series.

L'autore:

Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE was an English novelist, best known for the series of historical novels about the Poldarks. Graham was born in Manchester in 1908, but moved to Perranporth, Cornwall when he was seventeen. His first novel, The House with the Stained Glass Windows was published in 1933. His first 'Poldark' novel, Ross Poldark, was published in 1945, and was followed by eleven further titles, the last of which, Bella Poldark, came out in 2002. The novels were set in Cornwall, especially in and around Perranporth, where Graham spent much of his life, and were made into a BBC television series in the 1970s. It was so successful that vicars moved or cancelled church services rather than try to hold them when Poldark was showing.

Aside from the Poldark series, Graham's most successful work was Marnie, a thriller which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1964. Hitchcock had originally hoped that Grace Kelly would return to films to play the lead and she had agreed in principle, but the plan failed when the principality of Monaco realised that the heroine was a thief and sexually repressed. The leads were eventually taken by Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. Five of Graham's other books were filmed, including The Walking Stick, Night Without Stars and Take My Life. Graham wrote a history of the Spanish Armadas and an historical novel, The Grove of Eagles, based in that period. He was also an accomplished writer of suspense novels. His autobiography, Memoirs of a Private Man, was published by Macmillan in 2003. He had completed work on it just weeks before he died. Graham was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 1983 was honoured with the OBE.

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• Editore: Bello
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447254554
• ISBN 13: 9781447254553
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304