Frederic Dard

Broschiertes Buch

Bird in a Cage

Beschreibung

A brilliantly crafted Parisian suspense story from one of the masters of French noir

Autor

Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Cries, available from Pushkin Vertigo in Fall 2016. David Bellos is an English translator and biographer who currently teaches French and Comparative literature at Princeton University. His translations include several of Georges Simenon's Maigret novels, as well as Paul Fournel's Dear Reader, published by Pushkin Press. He has also written biographies of Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary and an introduction to translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 124g
• ISBN-13: 9781782271994
• ISBN-10: 1782271996
• Artikelnr.: 44270476