Juan in America (Capuchin Classics)

Linklater, Eric

ISBN 10: 0955731240 / ISBN 13: 9780955731242

Edité par Capuchin Classics, 2008

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Juan in America (Capuchin Classics)
• Éditeur: Capuchin Classics
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0955731240
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780955731242
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Good

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Book by Linklater Eric

Biographie de l'auteur

Eric Linklater - Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-1974), was born in Wales and grew up in the Orkney islands. In the First World War he served with the Black Watch, and was wounded out in the German spring offensive of 1918. After studying at Aberdeen University, he went on to work as an assistant editor on the Times of India, and spent two years in the USA as a Commonwealth fellow, before publishing his first novel, White Maa s Saga, in 1929. His reputation was established by his third novel, 'Juan in America' (1931), a richly comic, picaresque extravaganza of American prohibition and the resultant gangsterism. Thereafter his overall literary output was vast and varied, establishing him as a leading British author of the Thirties and Forties and a major figure in the Scottish literary renaissance of the period. In all he wrote twenty-three novels, three volumes of short stories, two children's books, two books of verse, ten plays, three autobiographies, and another twenty-three books of miscellaneous essays and histories, including a study of the Italian campaign of the Second World War, and an account of Bonnie Prince Charlie s flight from the battle of Culloden, The Prince in the Heather (1965). His major novels include The Men of Ness (1932), Magnus Merriman (1934), Private Angelo (1946), and The Dark of Summer (1956). The foreword writer Alexander Linklater is an associate editor of Prospect magazine and a freelance writer contributing to the Guardian and Observer. In 2005 he founded the National Short Story Award with BBC Radio 4. He has been a fellow of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, deputy arts editor of the London Evening Standard, and literary editor of the Glasgow Herald.