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On a Balcony

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Informationen zum Autor David Stacton (1923-1968) was born Lionel Kingsley Evans in San Francisco. He attended Stanford University before serving in the Civilian Public Service as a conscientious objector during World War II! eventually graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951. Stacton went to Europe after college and ended up staying! in his words! 'because I liked it and because I could not get my books in print in America.' His first novel! Dolores ! was published in England in 1954. Among the wide-ranging historical and biographical novels for which he would become best known are Remember Me ! about Ludwig of Bavaria; On a Balcony ! about Nefertiti and Pharaoh Akhenaten; Segaki ! set in feudal Japan; A Signal Victory ! about the Spanish conquest of the Yucatán; Old Acquaintance ! set at a film festival and telling of the loves of a star resembling Marlene Dietrich; and People of the Book ! set during the Thirty Years' War. In 1968 he moved to Fredensborg! Denmark! but ten days later he was found dead in his new home. He was forty-four years old. Klappentext The Pharaoh Ikhnaton! his sister-wife Nefertiti! the sculptor Tutmose! and the rivalry his religion of Aton brought to Egypt and its then current cult of Amon ...presenting Ikhnaton's imposition of a religion upon those who look on him as a god. Zusammenfassung 'On A Balcony is devoted to the 14th century [B.C.] and the Pharaoh Ikhnaton, his sister-wife Nefertiti, the sculptor Tutmose, and the rivalry his religion of Aton brought to Egypt and its then current cult of Amon...

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Authors David Stacton, Stacton David
Publisher Faber & Faber
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.06.2012
 
EAN 9780571295791
ISBN 978-0-571-29579-1
No. of pages 266
Dimensions 126 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
Series Invincible Questions trilogy
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945

FICTION / Literary, Egypt, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

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