Stars and Bars - Hardcover

Boyd, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688025994 ISBN 13: 9780688025991

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1985

Synopsis

British-born Henderson Dores, art appraiser at Mulholland, Melhuish Fine Arts Gallery in New York City, is sent to value reclusive millionaire Loomis Gage's collection, in a satirical look at the misadventures of a proper Englishman in the Big Apple and the Deep South

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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 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0688025994
• ISBN 13: 9780688025991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1