Times Two - Couverture souple

Bailey, Bill

 
9781414021492: Times Two
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1414021496 ISBN 13 : 9781414021492
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

This is adramatic and chilling tale told in the time zones of the present andfuture.¿ The almost animate physicalstructure of the State is revealed as it disintegrates around the lives ofcharacters including a television evangelist looking for money and findingredemption, despite the stench of his own corruption.¿ A crazed media baron is embedded in hiscastle in the Channel Islands, at last realising his sexual and financial fantasies.¿ An American ex-private detective helps lead ahopeless band of scattered comrades in a modern and most definitely post-modern Britain.¿ The leader of the Labour Party resigns on theeve of her election in what seems to be an act of idioticself-destruction.¿ The action swirls intothe funnel of a whirlpool as an unimaginable catastrophe threatens theexistence of humanity.¿ The survivorsfight desperately to re-weave the social fabric, opposed by forces who struggleto restore the values of the thief and thug.¿Fast-moving.¿Emotionally powerful.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is adramatic and chilling tale told in the time zones of the present andfuture.¿ The almost animate physicalstructure of the State is revealed as it disintegrates around the lives ofcharacters including a television evangelist looking for money and findingredemption, despite the stench of his own corruption.¿ A crazed media baron is embedded in hiscastle in the Channel Islands, at last realising his sexual and financial fantasies.¿ An American ex-private detective helps lead ahopeless band of scattered comrades in a modern and most definitely post-modern Britain.¿ The leader of the Labour Party resigns on theeve of her election in what seems to be an act of idioticself-destruction.¿ The action swirls intothe funnel of a whirlpool as an unimaginable catastrophe threatens theexistence of humanity.¿ The survivorsfight desperately to re-weave the social fabric, opposed by forces who struggleto restore the values of the thief and thug.¿Fast-moving.¿Emotionally powerful.

Biographie de l'auteur

Born in a smallrural town in North Carolina, Bill Bailey began his itinerant life after graduating fromuniversity with a degree in philosophy.¿Subsequently ejected by the US Army, he found work as a prison guard in Canadabefore briefly prospecting for gold in British Columbia.¿ Having meanwhile accidentally married a Texanheiress, he moved to Houston, Texas where he managed a ranch, scrambledmotorbikes, rallied sports cars, worked as a bouncer, taught English andFrench, cut wheat and organised the first white collar union in the USmeat-packing industry.¿ Backing quicklyaway from Texas after stumbling into the acting profession he moved to London.¿ Within a year of his arrival he became thefirst full-frontal male nude on the British stage.¿ In the course of his acting career he hasworked extensively in film - in Hollywood and Europe - television and London's West End.¿ He now lives with afoul-mouthed parrot called Dizzy.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1414021496
ISBN 13 
9781414021492
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
564
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

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