Spies: A Novel (Recent Picador Highlights) - Softcover

Frayn, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312421176 ISBN 13: 9780312421175

Verlag: Picador Paper, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

SPIES de FRAYN, Michael 2003 Faber and Faber

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Críticas:

." . . a master of intellectual mystery masquerading as ripping popular entertainment. . .a gorgeous melancholy that shivers the mind." --The New York Times Book Review

"Marvelously effective. . .a novel of extraordinary power and wisdom, a tour de force of humane insight." --The Baltimore Sun

"Bernard Shaw couldn't do it, Henry James couldn't do it, but the ingenious English author Michael Frayn does do it: write novels and plays with equal success. [He] has extended his reach and seriousness while keeping a sprightly intellectuality." --John Updike, The New Yorker

"In Spies, recollections of actual things--the 'disconcerting perfume' of privet hedges in bloom and the flavor of lemon barley water--make Frayn's story so real you can taste it." --Boston Herald

"[Spies] convinces American readers that Frayn, author of some thirteen novels and sixteen plays, is a literary double threat." --The Boston Globe

"In this very English novel, secrets assume an unexpected power and excitement as Frayn reveals that a little of the fascist is buried in every clever child, and that spying can be a soul-destroying game." --Chicago Sun-Times

Reseña del editor:

When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where he and his friend, Keith, are plunged into a menacing world of terror when their imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaks havoc upon innocent lives. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Picador Paper
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312421176
• ISBN 13: 9780312421175
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272