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Informationen zum Autor William Palmer is the author of five novels, The Good Republic, Leporello, The Contract, The Pardon of Saint Anne and The India House, and a collection of short stories, Four Last Things. He was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Society of Authors in 1997. A book of poems, The Island Rescue, won the Collection Prize at the Listowel Writers' Week festival in Ireland in 2006. He reviews regularly for the Independent and other journals. He lives in south-west London. http://www.williampalmer.info/ Klappentext One day in June 1931 the body of a young girl was found on a lonely beach in Long Island, New York. She was soon identified as Starr Faithfull, a nicely brought up girl from a good family, but the picture soon began to change. A tabloid sensation in the 1930s, the story of Starr Faithfull is the basis of William Palmer's extraordinary new novel. Zusammenfassung One day in June 1931 the body of a young girl was found on a lonely beach in Long Island, New York. She was soon identified as Starr Faithfull, a nicely brought up girl from a good family, but the picture soon began to change. A tabloid sensation in the 1930s, the story of Starr Faithfull is the basis of William Palmer's extraordinary new novel.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: W. Palmer, William Palmer
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780099582472
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958247-2
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); New York, FICTION / Crime, Long Island, c 1930 to c 1939, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary