A Kestrel for a Knave

Informationen zum Autor Barry Hines Klappentext New edition of the story filmed as "Kes", with a new afterword by the author. "Gritty, moving, it has the stuff that endures" "Daily Mail". Zusammenfassung Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Himes, B. Hines, Barry Hines, Hines Barry
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.05.2000
• EAN: 9780141184982
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118498-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary