The Blooding of Jack Absolute

C.C. Humphreys

ISBN 10: 0752857053 / ISBN 13: 9780752857053

Editore: Orion, London, UK, 2005

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Signed first printing. Firmly bound in green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Corners and spine ends all fine. Text pages and end papers have no markings or previous owner inscriptions, and book appears to be unread. Signed without dedication by the author to title page. Also includes a signed publisher's post card. D/J is unclipped with nothing more than light shelf wear. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

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• Titolo: The Blooding of Jack Absolute
• Editore: Orion, London, UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0752857053
• ISBN 13: 9780752857053
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: As New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: As New
• Firmato: Signed by Author(s)

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Riassunto

London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town, he has both a girl he worships...and a courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love. Yet he plans to give up all carousing, sit the examinations for Cambridge, find a career in any field he chooses. If he can just stay out of trouble for one night...From the billiard halls and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the Plains of Abraham, Jack life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night. Through duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter spent in a cave in Canada, Jack learns the truth of his father's words...as well as a dozen things to do with a dead bear. A year on, the schoolboy will vanish, a man appear. But first he must learn to kill. To come of age, Jack Absolute must be blooded.

Informazioni sull?autore

C.C. Humphreys was born in Toronto, Canada, and grew up in Los Angeles and London. He is a third generation actor and writer.He was a schoolboy fencing champion, became a fight choreographer and thus turned his love of swashbuckling towards historical fiction. He is married and lives in North London.