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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Cyril Avery is not a real Avery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Aspiring writer Maurice Swift, whose desire for fame exceeds his talent, uses a chance meeting with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann in a West Berlin hotel in 1988 to obtain secrets about Ackermann's wartime activities, which becomes material for his first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan...
Author
Publisher
Narrativa Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición: mayo de 2021.
Language
Español
Description
Adoptado por una pareja acomodada aunque excéntrica de Dublín que le recuerda que él no es un miembro real de su familia, Cyril se embarca en un viaje para encontrarse a sí mismo y de dónde vino, descubriendo su identidad, un hogar, un país, y mucho más a lo largo de una larga vida.
Adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple who remind him that he is not a real member of their family, Cyril embarks on a journey to find himself and...
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