The World of Suzie Wong - Hardcover

Mason, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002219018 ISBN 13: 9780002219013

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1977

Synopsis

The world of Suzie Wong.

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Review:

"A thrilling, imaginative experience."

"Refreshingly different... excitingly real and vivid." - Boston Globe

"One of the tenderest, most beautiful, agonizing and interesting love stories of the year.... Magnificently effective." - San Francisco Examiner

"A thrilling, imaginative experience." - Washington Post & Times Herald

"The reader falls in love with Suzie as Mason weaves his magic spell." - Detroit News

"One of the most tender and enchanting heroines to find her way into print in a long time." - Saturday Review

Reminiscent of Somerset Maugham at his storytelling best Suzie Wong is enchanting. New York HeraldTribune
Refreshingly different excitingly real and vivid. BostonGlobe
A thrilling, imaginative experience. Washington Post & Times Herald
One of the tenderest, most beautiful, agonizing and interesting love stories of the year . Magnificently effective. San Francisco Examiner
The reader falls in love with Suzie as Mason weaves his magic spell. Detroit News
One of the most tender and enchanting heroines to find her way into print in a long time. Saturday Review"

-Reminiscent of Somerset Maugham at his storytelling best... Suzie Wong is enchanting.- - New York Herald Tribune
-Refreshingly different... excitingly real and vivid.- - Boston Globe
-A thrilling, imaginative experience.- - Washington Post & Times Herald
-One of the tenderest, most beautiful, agonizing and interesting love stories of the year.... Magnificently effective.- - San Francisco Examiner
-The reader falls in love with Suzie as Mason weaves his magic spell.- - Detroit News
-One of the most tender and enchanting heroines to find her way into print in a long time.- - Saturday Review

"Reminiscent of Somerset Maugham at his storytelling best... Suzie Wong is enchanting." - New York Herald Tribune

"Refreshingly different... excitingly real and vivid." - Boston Globe

"A thrilling, imaginative experience." - Washington Post & Times Herald

"One of the tenderest, most beautiful, agonizing and interesting love stories of the year.... Magnificently effective." - San Francisco Examiner

"The reader falls in love with Suzie as Mason weaves his magic spell." - Detroit News

"One of the most tender and enchanting heroines to find her way into print in a long time." - Saturday Review

About the Author:

Richard Mason was born near Manchester, England on 16 May 1919. He was a British novelist, he was educated in Dorset, and worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council. The Second World War gave him a chance to learn Japanese and he became an interrogator of prisoners of war. The Second World War gave him a chance to learn Japanese and he became an interrogator of prisoners of war. He wrote several books. Mason wrote The Wind Cannot Read finished during the Burma Campaign and the screenplay for the 1958 film version starring Dirk Bogarde; The Shadow and the Peak (filmed as Passionate Summer, ; and The Fever Tree, a story of espionage set in India and Nepal. His experiences while living in Hong Kong inspired him to write The World of Suzie Wong. This was adapted into a Broadway play in 1958 and later into the film, The World of Suzie Wong, in 1960, starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan. He died oon 13 October 1997 in Rome, Italy.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0002219018
• ISBN 13: 9780002219013
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 383