Headlong

Name: Headlong
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Michael Frayn
ISBN: 9780571200511

Michael Frayn

07/08/1999
Faber & Faber

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Headlong par Michael Frayn

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur A tale of historical investigation and comic invention. Invited to assess some old paintings, an easily-distracted philosopher is convinced that one of them is a lost work by Breughel. He risks everything he has in the effort to establish its provenance and trick it from its owner's possession. Biographie de l'auteur Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.