Christopher Davis, Ron Nyswaner
Philadelphia

1994 | Nakladatelství Mht

I když ví, že zákeřné nemoci podlehne, rozhodne se svého bývalého zaměstnavatele zažalovat, protože jde o zjevnou diskriminaci. Procesu se ujme černošský advokát z nutnosti, během zdlouhavého procesu však plně pochopí celou problematiku homosexuálů u nemoci AIDS a získává na svoji stranu i většinu poroty. Výborně napsa…ná kniha vznikla podle scénáře stejnojmenného filmu. I když ví, že zákeřné nemoci podlehne, rozhodne se svého bývalého zaměstnavatele zažalovat, protože jde o zjevnou diskriminaci. Procesu se ujme černošský advokát z nutnosti, během zdlouhavého procesu …však plně pochopí celou problematiku homosexuálů u nemoci AIDS a získává na svoji stranu i většinu poroty. Výborně napsaná kniha vznikla podle scénáře stejnojmenného filmu.

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Velmi dobrý

desky s polepkou

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O knize

Stav:	Velmi dobrý, desky s polepkou
Vazba:	pevná
Počet stran:	203
Jazyk:	česky
ISBN10:	8085861038
ISBN:	9788085861037
Překladatel:	Růžena Loulová
Vydání:	1. vyd.
Vydáno v:	Praha
Vystaveno:	28. 12. 2024 9:42
Číslo položky:	1094674

O autorech

Christopher Davis

Christopher Davis was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1928 and raised there. He was educated at public schools; at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Institute; at the Art Students League in New York; at the Barnes Art Foundation in Philadelphia; at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome; and at the University of Pennsylvania . His father was the Philadelphia labor lawyer Edward Davis. His mother, Josephine Blitzstein Davis, was a social activist. His uncle was Marc Blitzstein, the American composer. His brother Stephen is a retired banking lawyer who now teaches law. He is the father of four daughters--Kirby Bosley, Katherine Davis, Emily Davis and Sarah Davis. He is married to Sally Warner, the artist and children's book author, with whom he lives in Altadena, California. Davis has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania; at Bowling Green State University in Ohio; at Drexel University in Philadelphia; at Indiana University of Pennsylvania; at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania; at Rider College in New Jersey; and, from 1977 to 1995, at Bryn Mawr College. He is Senior Lecturer in the Arts emeritus from Bryn Mawr College. He has published eleven novels, three books of non-fiction, a book for children, and numerous articles and short stories in magazines such as Esquire, Holiday, Travel & Leisure, and The Pennsylvania Gazette. His short story "A Man of Affairs" was an O'Henry prize story and was the basis for a play produced by the Actors Theater of Louisville. His novels have been published in England, Sweden, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy and Holland as well as the United States. His novel Lost Summer was adapted for the stage under the title "There was a little Girl" and produced on Broadway with Jane Fonda in the principal role. His adaptation to the stage of his novel A Peep Into the 20th Century was given staged readings at the Long Wharf Theater and at the Annenberg Theater, and was produced fir...

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