An Ice-Cream War: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

Boyd, William

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ISBN 10: 0375705023 ISBN 13: 9780375705021

Verlag: Vintage, 1999

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Book by Boyd William

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As World War I reaches into the East Africa colonies, two English brothers, Gabriel and Felix, find themselves bound by their attitudes toward the war, their love for one another and for one woman, and their fragmenting empire

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n character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best."
--The New York Times Book Review

Booker Prize Finalist

"Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but also of seriousness and compassion."  --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa, American farmer Walter Smith dreams of Theodore Roosevelt. As he sleeps, a railway passenger swats at flies, regretting her decision to return to the Dark Continent--and to her husband. On a faraway English riverbank, a jealous Felix Cobb watches his brother swim, and curses his sister-in-law-to-be. And in the background of the
world's daily chatter: rumors of an Anglo-German conflict, the likes of which no one has ever seen.

In An Ice-Cream War, William Boyd

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375705023
• ISBN 13: 9780375705021
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416