On the Yankee Station: Stories - Paperback
by William Boyd
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Availability:In StockContributor:William BoydSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2001-02-27Pages:226
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375705113ISBN-10:375705112UPC:9780375705113Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:8.00 x 5.19 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCTR39G5VD
Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives. From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities. Stranded in an African hotel during a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a young stewardess...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375705113ISBN-10:375705112UPC:9780375705113Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author)Size:8.00 x 5.19 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCTR39G5VD
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.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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