Michel Déon

The Great and the Good (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Evans, Julian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed author of The Foundling Boy, The Great and the Good is a 1950s American classic about a tranformative journey by sea.



'Slyly funny, yet still touching' The Sunday Times



Arthur Morgan is aboard the Queen Mary bound for the United States, where a scholarship at an Ivy League university awaits him, along with the promise of a glittering future.



But the few days spent on the ship will have a defining effect on the young Frenchman, when he encounters the love of his life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gallic Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910477403
• Artikelnr.: 47416233

Autorenporträt

Born in Paris in 1919, Michel Déon is the author of more than 50 works of fiction and non-fiction, and a member of the Académie française. His 1970 novel Les Poneys Sauvages was awarded the prestigious Prix Interallié and in 1973 Le Taxi Mauve (later made into a film starring Fred Astaire and Charlotte Rampling) won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française. Le Jeune Homme Vert (The Foundling Boy) was published in 1975, with the sequel published two years later. Déon lives in Ireland with his wife, Chantal, and their horses.

Rezensionen

'A wonderfully well-crafted and moving essay on the enduring and often illogical pain of first love' The Daily Mail

'Deon creates characters of quirky depth..slyly funny, yet still touching' The Sunday Times

'Luxury and refinement are paramount in Michel Deon's The Great and the Good' Wall Street Journal

'An elegant and reflective writer' The New York Times

Praise for The Foundling novels

'Quiet, wryly funny prose ... a delight' Independent on Sunday

'It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored by the anglophone world' Sunday Times

'A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... leaves you feeling better about life' The Spectator

'Deserves a place alongside Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Le Grand Meaulnes' New Statesman

'Déon is an outrageous storyteller' Times Literary Supplement