An Ice-cream War: 'Compulsively' Readable Observer (Penguin Essentials, 40)

Boyd, William

ISBN 10: 024197075X / ISBN 13: 9780241970751

Verlag: Hamish Hamilton UK, 2014

Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M0024197075X-V

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An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?'
'I think it would hurt a great deal.'

Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.

As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of sixteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. His most recent novel, Trio, was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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Titel: An Ice-cream War: 'Compulsively' Readable ...
Verlag: Hamish Hamilton UK
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very good