Famous Regiments : The Black Watch

Philip Howard

ISBN 10: 0241015383 / ISBN 13: 9780241015384

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1968

About this Item

Ex library hardback with DK; usual stamps/markings. 1st edition published in 1989 by Hamish Hamilton, London. Light wear to boards/DJ & a few handling marks otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 9D*.

Seller Inventory # SFL15-008

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Famous Regiments : The Black Watch
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241015383
• ISBN 13: 9780241015384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing town; from the city of Hiroshima just before the bomb is dropped to the haunting waste of the South China Sea in the wake of another war. Each story uncovers a raw human truth. Each story is absorbing and fully realised as a novel. Together, the make-up is a collection of astonishing diversity and achievement.