Lawrence Osborne

Broschiertes Buch

The Ballad of a Small Player

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Lawrence Osborne is a critically acclaimed novelist, journalist, and screenwriter based in Bangkok. He is the author of eight novels, including Ballad of a Small Player, Beautiful Animals, and The Forgiven. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, The Naked Tourist and The Wet and the Dry. His novels have been chosen as Books of the Year by the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, The Economist, The New Yorker and the New York Times. The Forgiven was made into a film in 2022 starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes and Ballad of a Small Player starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton was released on Netflix in 2025.

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