School Ties: Good And Bad at Games; Dutch Girls - Softcover

Boyd, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140084355 ISBN 13: 9780140084351

Publisher: Penguin, 1985

Synopsis

/ 9780140084351 / Theatre and Play-acting / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / paperback / 13 x 20 cm / 144 .pp /

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Synopsis:

Contains two plays for television about the vicissitudes of public schools, together with a 20,000 word introduction by the author, who has also written "Brazzaville Beach", "A Good Man in Africa", "An Ice-Cream War", "Stars and Bars", "The New Confessions" and "On the Yankee Station".

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0140084355
• ISBN 13: 9780140084351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144