On the Yankee Station - Softcover

Boyd, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140060871 ISBN 13: 9780140060874

Verlag: Penguin, 1982

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"Mr. Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose."?Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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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.

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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140060871
• ISBN 13: 9780140060874
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192