The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold; Tactical Exercise; Love Among the Ruins - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0140017941 ISBN 13 : 9780140017946

Editeur : Penguin, 1976

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and creme de menthe. He books a passage on the SS Caliban and, as it cruises towards Ceylon, rapidly slips into madness. Almost as soon as the gangplank lifts, Pinfold hears sounds coming out of the ceiling of his cabin: wild jazz bands, barking dogs, and loud revival meetings. He is convinced that an erratic public-address system is letting him hear everything that goes on aboard ship . . . until instead of just sounds he hears voices. And not just any voices. These voices are talking, in the most frighteningly intimate way, about him!

Biographie de l'auteur

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), whom Time called "one of the century's great masters of English prose," wrote several widely acclaimed novels as well as volumes of biography, memoir, travel writing, and journalism. Three of his novels, A Handful of Dust, Scoop, and Brideshead Revisited, were selected by the Modern Library as among the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140017941
• ISBN 13: 9780140017946
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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