A Tree on Fire из жанра Современная русская и зарубежная проза

A Tree on Fire

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Силлитоу Алан

Серия: William Posters #2

Язык: английский

Год: 2016

Издатель: Open Road Media

ISBN: 9781504018739

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The second novel in award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe’s William Posters Trilogy is an existential investigation of protest and revolution in 1960s North Africa and England
Jewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gibraltar with her four-week-old son. Frank Dawley, the child’s father and the anarchist antihero of The Death of William Posters, has disappeared into the African desert, where he is fighting with the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) for Algerian independence against French troops.
Greeting Myra quayside as she disembarks from the ship is Frank’s friend, Albert Handley, an idealistic painter living in a chaotic house in Linconshire with seven kids, a bulldog, six cats, and two au pair girls. Albert’s brother, John, is determined to break from the family and he sets off for Algeria to track Frank down — but not before burning the Handley house to the ground. The Handley…