Name: On the Yankee Station By William Boyd
SKU: 9780140093476
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On the Yankee Station by William Boyd

Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school ... Oddballs on the seedy side of America ... Murder in a quiet Devon cottage ... Comical, ironical or lacerating - wit is the keynote of these stories, which include two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, glorious anti-hero of William Boyd's prize-winning novel `A Good Man in Africa'. `His writing, with nods in the direction of Borges and Nabokov, combines violence, comedy and experiment ... an impressively varied collection' Time Out.

About William Boyd

William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa (1981), won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His other novels include An Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Stars and Bars (1984), The New Confessions (1987), Brazzaville Beach (1990, winner of the McVitie Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), Armadillo (1998), Any Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet) and Restless (2006, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award). His latest novel is Sweet Caress (2015). Some seventeen of his screenplays have been filmed, including The Trench (1999), which he also directed, and he is also the author of four collections of short stories: On the Yankee Station (1981), The Destiny of Nathalie 'X' (1995), Fascination (2004) and The Dream Lover (2008). He is married and divides his time between London and South West France.

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GOR001131417

ISBN 13

9780140093476

ISBN 10

0140093478

Title

On the Yankee Station by William Boyd

Author

William Boyd

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

19880526

Number of pages

240

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On the Yankee Station William Boyd

On the Yankee Station by William Boyd

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