Lawrence Osborne

The Ballad of a Small Player

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Produktbeschreibung

The Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortuneâ s fickle hand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 166g
• ISBN-13: 9780099599685
• ISBN-10: 0099599686
• Artikelnr.: 41468427

Autorenporträt

Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark, Beautiful Animals, Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe novel (commissioned by the Raymond Chandler estate), The Glass Kingdom and On Java Road. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, The Naked Tourist and The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012. The Forgiven, starring Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith and Jessica Chastain was released in 2022. Osborne lives in Bangkok.