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Informationen zum Autor William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. Any Human Heart was longlisted for the Booker Prize and adapted into a TV series with Channel 4. In 2005, Boyd was awarded the CBE. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. Klappentext William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra! Ghana! and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed! bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France. Zusammenfassung All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he?