Trio von William Boyd

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 352 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Verlag: Penguin Books UKPenguin
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780241295977

A middle-aged film producer, a novelist with writer's block and a glamorous young actress come together to make a Swinging Sixties movie in thisjaunty page-turner. But everyone is living a double life. Even names can't be taken on trust.Full of neat phrases and quirkily funny scenes, it's an elating readThe Times, Best Paperbacks of 2021

'An elating read'Sunday Times<br><br>A producer. A novelist. An actress.<br><br>It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin'Sixties movie in sunny Brighton.<br><br>All are leading secret lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer's block in vodka; Talbot, coping with the daily dysfunction of making a film, is hiding something in a secret apartment; and the glamorous Anny is wondering why the CIA is suddenly so interested in her.<br><br>But the show must go on and, as it does, the trio's private worlds begin to take over their public ones. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.<br><br>From one of Britain's best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>PRAISE FOR WILLIAM BOYD<br><br>'The ultimate in immersive fiction . . . magnificent'Sunday Times<br><br>'A finely judged performance: adeft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, ofliterary myth and imagination'GuardianonLove is Blind<br><br>'William Boyd has probably writtenmore classic books than any of his contemporaries'Daily Telegraph<br><br>'Simply the best realistic storyteller of his generation'Sebastian Faulks

6GBWilliam 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.Any Human Heartwas longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.

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