Stars and Bars (Vintage International) - Softcover

Boyd, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375705015 ISBN 13: 9780375705014

Publisher: Vintage, 2001

Synopsis

Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature's most imaginative novelists.

A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserve and aspire to the impulsive and breezy nature of Americans. But when Loomis Gage, an eccentric millionaire, invites him to appraise his small collection of Impressionist paintings, Dores's plans quite literally go south. Stranded at a remote mansion in the Georgia countryside, Dores is received by the bizarre Gage family with Anglophobic slurs, nausea-inducing food, ludicrous death threats, and a menacing face off with competing art dealers. By the time he manages to sneak back to New York City-sporting only a cardboard box-Henderson Dores realizes he is fast on the way to becoming a naturalized citizen.

About this title

Review:

"William Boyd has written a perfect book. He is funnier than Evelyn Waugh."-Los Angeles Times

"Stands in the great tradition of the English comic novel."-The Boston Globe

"There's hardly a writer around whose work offers more pleasure and satisfaction."-The Washington Post

About the Author:

William Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375705015
• ISBN 13: 9780375705014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336