The High Flyer
$45.43
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2005
Summary
‘The Vision of Elena Silves was almost too precociously good. The High Flyer rolls back the doors of the Shakespearian bunker to reveal the arsenal within. It’s a very good novel’ - William Boyd
Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport stolen by a Gibraltarian a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099466185 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009946618X |
| Author: | Nicholas Shakespeare |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2005 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
He tells a story like an angel… Wonderful
He tells a story like an angel… Wonderful * Observer *
A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again – Rosemary Stoyle * Literary Review *
Shakespeare has completed a richly detailed, remarkably complete imaginary world * The Times *
His lyricism is all his own and he raises his lovers to a plateau of passion where Greene never ventured * Sunday Telegraph *
Wavery’s story has a lyric simplicity and an emotional subtlety that are moving, involving and beautifully observed * Independent *
Nicholas Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year’s best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novels are Secrets of the Sea and Inheritance. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.
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