THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE - signed

Humphreys C C

ISBN 10: 0752857053 / ISBN 13: 9780752857053

Edité par orion Books, 2005

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fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper 1st edition. SIGNED. London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town, he has both a girl he worships and a courtesan.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE BLOODING OF JACK ABSOLUTE - signed
• Éditeur: orion Books
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0752857053
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780752857053
• Reliure: Hardback
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

London 1759 and Jack's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, the leader of a gang of bucks about the Town, he has both a girl he worships...and a courtesan teaching him the more basic arts of love. Yet he plans to give up all carousing, sit the examinations for Cambridge, find a career in any field he chooses. If he can just stay out of trouble for one night...From the billiard halls and brothels of London to a clash of Empires on the Plains of Abraham, Jack life is forever altered by the tragedies of that night. Through duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter spent in a cave in Canada, Jack learns the truth of his father's words...as well as a dozen things to do with a dead bear. A year on, the schoolboy will vanish, a man appear. But first he must learn to kill. To come of age, Jack Absolute must be blooded.

À propos de l?auteur

C.C. Humphreys was born in Toronto and grew up in Los Angeles and London. A third generation actor and writer on both sides of his family, he is married and lives on Salt Spring Island, Canada. www.cchumphreys.com