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Zusatztext The play itself is a reverent tribute to Chekhov. There is no mistaking the depth of Boyd's immersion in his work Informationen zum Autor William Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A Good Man in Africa , winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War , winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart , winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a BAFTA-winning Channel 4 drama; Restless , winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection; the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for Sunrise and, most recently, Solo , a James Bond novel. William Boyd lives in London and France williamboyd.co.uk Klappentext All things pass - is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life , to weave a comic tale about nineteenth-century Russian provincial life, both familiar and unfamiliar.When Kolia is invited to visit his oldest friends on their Estate in the country he anticipates a pleasant break from Moscow life. But as the comedy of provincial life plays out around him, he finds himself adrift in a miasma of false expectations, missed opportunities, and unspoken passions.The first play by bestselling author William Boyd, Longing adapts two of Chekhov's short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life , to weave a comic tale, at once exotic and familiar. Zusammenfassung All things pass – is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life , to weave a comic tale about nineteenth-century Russian provincial life, both familiar and unfamiliar. When Kolia is invited to visit his oldest friends on their Estate in the country he anticipates a pleasant break from Moscow life. But as the comedy of provincial life plays out around him, he finds himself adrift in a miasma of false expectations, missed opportunities, and unspoken passions. ...
