Foregone - Softcover

Vidich, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857304593 ISBN 13: 9780857304599

Verlag: Faber & Faber, London, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

In 1953, Dr. Charles Wilson, a government scientist, died when he 'jumped or fell' from the ninth floor of a hotel. With the release of the Rockefeller Commission report on illegal CIA activities in 1975, the Wilson case suddenly becomes news again, especially as some come to suspect the CIA of foul play. Enter agent Jack Gabriel, an old friend of the Wilson family who is instructed by the CIA director to findout what really happened to Wilson. Than his most perilous key witnesses die from suspicious causes

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Russell Banks published ten novels, six short story collections, and four poetry collections.  His novels Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.  Two of Banks's novels have been adapted for feature-length films, The Sweet Hereafter (winner of the Grand Prix and International Critics Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival) and Affliction (which earned a 'Best Supporting Actor' Oscar for James Coburn).  His work has won numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, O. Henry and Best American Short Story Award, and the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. One of America's most prestigious fiction writers, Russell Banks was president of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He passed away in January 2023.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857304593
• ISBN 13: 9780857304599
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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