William Boyd
Trio

2021 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

A producer. A novelist. An actress. 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. 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. 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. 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? A producer. A novelist. An actress. 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. Whil…e the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton. 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. 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. 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?

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Počet stran:	0
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0241295971
ISBN:	9780241295977
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	7. 4. 2025 13:3
Číslo položky:	1203707

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William Boyd

William Boyd je skotský spisovatel narozený v Ghaně a píšící anglicky. Vystudoval na University of Glasgow a Oxfordskou univerzitu. Zde pak i vyučoval. Roku 1981 vydal svůj první román A Good Man in Africa, s nímž měl ihned úspěch. Kniha získala Somerset Maugham Award a je dodnes jeho nejúspěšnějším dílem. Poté napsal řadu dalších románů: An Ice-Cream War , Brazzaville Beach , The Blue Afternoon , Armadillo , Any Human Heart , Ordinary Thunderstorms či Waiting for Sunrise . V letech 1981–1983 byl televizním recenzentem týdeníku New Statesman, sám napsal několik televizních scénářů. Roku 2012 získal od dědiců Iana Fleminga právo užít postavu Jamese Bonda. Svou bondovku nazvanou Solo vydal o rok později. Cítí se být Skotem a součástí skotské literatury.

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