In My Wildest Dreams - Couverture souple

Thomas, Leslie

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014008066X ISBN 13 : 9780140080667

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1986

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380 pages. Annotations en page de garde. Etat d'usage T�ch�e Mouillures In-12 Carr� Broch� Autobiography.

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From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist...

At times funny, at times sad, but always honest and utterly compulsive, Leslie Thomas's story is straight out of fiction. As an orphan, he picked his way through the rubble of post-war Britain and was sent on national service to the Far East. Later he became a Fleet Street reporter, with hilarious experiences to relate, and then became the bestselling author of The Virgin Soldiers - the novel that, although scandalous in its day, is now recognised as a classic of its kind. He is also the creator of Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, which has been adapted into a popular television series.

With a new introduction for this edition, this is an amazing story, and Leslie Thomas's magic touch brings it crackling to life with warmth, wit and laughter.

'Vividly readable... Leslie Thomas is one of nature's life enhancers' Sunday Express

'A fine storyteller' Sunday Telegraph

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost of sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers. In 2005, Leslie Thomas received an OBE for services to literature.

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