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Skios
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2012-06-19
Skios written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with Fiction categories.
The great master of farce turns to an exclusive island retreat for a comedy of mislaid identities, unruly passions, and demented, delicious disorder On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of science. He turns out to be surprisingly youthful, handsome, and charming—quite unlike his reputation as dry and intimidating. Everyone is soon eating out of his hands. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the foundation's attractive and efficient organizer. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old friend Georgie has rashly agreed to spend a furtive horizontal weekend with a notorious schemer, who has characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped there with her instead is a pompous, balding individual called Dr. Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper, and increasingly all sense of reality—indeed, everything he possesses other than the text of a well-traveled lecture on the scientific organization of science. In a spiraling farce about upright academics, gilded captains of industry, ambitious climbers, and dotty philanthropists, Michael Frayn, the farceur "by whom all others must be measured" (CurtainUp), tells a story of personal and professional disintegration, probing his eternal theme of how we know what we know even as he delivers us to the outer limits of hilarity.
Skios
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Skios written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Fiction categories.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.' On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science... And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so Skios - Greece - Europe - career off their appointed track. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Skios is a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences. Michael Frayn is also the celebrated author of fifteen plays including Noises Off, Copenhagen and Afterlife. His other bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award.
Skios
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : nl
Publisher: J.M. Meulenhoff
Release Date : 2013-04-08
Skios written by Michael Frayn and has been published by J.M. Meulenhoff this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-08 with Fiction categories.
Op het zonovergoten Griekse eiland Skios wordt de gelauwerde wetenschapper doctor Norman Wilfred verwacht als eregast van de Fred Toppler Foundation. Hij blijkt verrassend jong en charmant te zijn - helemaal niet de intimiderende geleerde die men had verwacht. Al snel zijn alle gedistingeerde gasten die van heinde en verre zijn gekomen om hem te ontmoeten verkocht. Niet in de laatste plaats Nikki, de mooie en doortastende organisatrice. Aan de andere kant van het eiland arriveert op hetzelfde moment Nikki's oude schoolvriendin Georgie voor een heimelijke vakantie met jetsetter en notoire rokkenjager Oliver Fox. Ze heeft met hem afgesproken in een prachtige vakantievilla. Maar hij komt niet opdagen en ze blijkt door een onfortuinlijke samenloop van omstandigheden de villa te moeten delen met een pedante en kalende professor die de weg en zijn koffer kwijt is. Het enige wat hij nog heeft is zijn vreselijk belangrijke speech waar door gasten van over de hele wereld reikhalzend naar wordt uitgekeken
Towards The End Of The Morning
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-11-12
Towards The End Of The Morning written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Fiction categories.
Michael Frayn's classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, John Dyson, a mid-level editor, dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life -- until one day his great chance of glory arrives. But does he have what it takes to succeed in the exciting world of television?
A Landing On The Sun
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2009-01-08
A Landing On The Sun written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-08 with Fiction categories.
Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a reassessment of its own, in case of any sudden alarm at Number Ten. ' A Landing on the Sun is not just a masterly novel in its own right, but a clever debunking of those off-the-peg Whitehall yarns ... Many novelists have tried to take the lid off the arcane world of the Civil Service. Frayn has done it as brilliantly and imaginitively as any of them.' Daily Telegraph 'Comedy creeps up on A Landing on the Sun like bindweed, transforming what starts out as a thriller into a small masterpiece of the absurd.' Financial Times
Skios Druk 1
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Author : Michael A. Frayn
language : nl
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Skios Druk 1 written by Michael A. Frayn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with categories.
Persoonsverwisselingen op een Grieks eiland leiden tot hilarische situaties.
The Russian Interpreter
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-11-12
The Russian Interpreter written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Fiction categories.
'A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.'Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow university to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations.
A Very Private Life
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-11-12
A Very Private Life written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-12 with Fiction categories.
'Easily the most original thing Frayn has done . . . written with elegant simplicity.' New Statesman Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world. Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring ... 'A fairy tale of the future.' Guardian
Pocket Playhouse
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Pocket Playhouse written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Humor categories.
Pocket Playhouse is Michael Frayn's latest imaginative offering that brings the stage to the page. In thirty-six comic sketches, he provides a tour de force of theatrical imagination and satire. Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for all theatre and comedy writers.
Now You Know
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Author : Michael Frayn
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-07
Now You Know written by Michael Frayn and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-07 with Drama categories.
"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer)