Rupert Everett

The American No

'[An] eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories' Tatler

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rupert Everett's debut collection of short stories - brilliant, witty, funny and tender.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781408714195
• ISBN-10: 1408714191
• Artikelnr.: 71293461

Autorenporträt

Rupert Everett is an actor, writer and director. He has appeared in film and TV productions including Napoleon, My Policeman, Adult Material, The Serpent Queen, Funny Woman, An Ideal Husband and My Best Friend's Wedding. On stage his work includes Another Country, The Vortex, Pygmalion, Amadeus and The Judas Kiss. His first memoir, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, was a Sunday Times bestseller and its sequel Vanished Years won the Sheridan Morley prize for biography. His documentary series Love for Sale won the Grierson award and his film of Oscar Wilde's later years, The Happy Prince was released in 2018 to widespread acclaim.

Rezensionen

This is a storyteller unafraid to spike his black comedy with sudden and strongly brewed emotion... Individually, the stories are exhilarating; together, they add up to an intriguing self-portrait of an artist at work, presenting us with the multiple facets of an undaunted imagination, recut, repolished and ready to shine in the dark Guardian, Book of the Day