William Boyd: On the Yankee Station

Cover: 9780375705113 | On the Yankee Station | Stories | William Boyd | Taschenbuch | 2001

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Beschreibung

Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.

From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess with stories of an enchanted life completely at odds with his sordid existence in "The Coup." In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimaets the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his maintenance crew. With droll humor and rare compassion, Boyd's enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction's finest storytellers.

Über den Autor

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 Beachwon the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoonwon the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780375705113
ISBN-10:	0375705112
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Boyd, William
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 132 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	William Boyd
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.02.2001
Gewicht:	0,288 kg