{"product_id":"on-the-yankee-station","title":"On the Yankee Station","description":"Présentation de l'éditeur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school ... Oddballs on the seedy side of America ... Murder in a quiet Devon cottage ... Comical, ironical or lacerating - wit is the keynote of these stories, which include two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, glorious anti-hero of William Boyd's prize-winning novel `A Good Man in Africa’. `His writing, with nods in the direction of Borges and Nabokov, combines violence, comedy and experiment … an impressively varied collection’ Time Out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiographie de l'auteur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel,\u003cbr\u003eA Good Man in Africa (1981), won the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. His other novels include\u003cbr\u003eAn Ice Cream War (1982, shortlisted for the 1982 Booker Prize and winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize),\u003cbr\u003eStars and Bars (1984),\u003cbr\u003eThe New Confessions (1987),\u003cbr\u003eBrazzaville Beach (1990, winner of the McVitie Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize),\u003cbr\u003eThe Blue Afternoon (1993, winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award),\u003cbr\u003eArmadillo (1998),\u003cbr\u003eAny Human Heart (2002, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet) and\u003cbr\u003eRestless (2006, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award). His latest novel is Sweet Caress (2015). Some seventeen of his screenplays have been filmed, including\u003cbr\u003eThe Trench (1999), which he also directed, and he is also the author of four collections of short stories:\u003cbr\u003eOn the Yankee Station (1981),\u003cbr\u003eThe Destiny of Nathalie\u003cbr\u003e'X' (1995),\u003cbr\u003eFascination (2004) and\u003cbr\u003eThe Dream Lover (2008). He is married and divides his time between London and South West France.","brand":"Reciclibros","offers":[{"title":"Aceptable","offer_id":59341373047118,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Bueno","offer_id":59341373079886,"sku":"627125_1_3","price":4.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Muy bueno","offer_id":59341373112654,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Como nuevo","offer_id":59341373145422,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1019\/9331\/6686\/files\/084a075d-f13e-41b7-8089-7419dc1d31f4_08751248-e0f5-47c2-8aa5-c093c3eb2eb6.jpg?v=1777080776","url":"https:\/\/www.reciclibros.com\/products\/on-the-yankee-station","provider":"Reciclibros","version":"1.0","type":"link"}