Speechless Hostages and Other Stories
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Speechless Hostages and Other Stories
19.99 €
American writer and screenwriter Paul Gallico (1897-1976), author of the novels Thomasina and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, made a name for himself in sports journalism, served in the Navy during World War I and was a war correspondent during the Second Year. He traveled the world, was married four times, loved fishing, fencing and animals - he had twenty-three cats and a dog at home. But most of all, he loved to write stories.
In 1941, Gallico published The White Goose, a short story about the friendship of an unsociable artist living in an abandoned lighthouse and a girl from a fishing village who appeared on his doorstep with a wounded bird in her hands. This story of love and war, which earned Hemingway’s praise and changed the life of its author, was followed by Verna, a tragic story about a young actress unrequitedly in love with a scene; Snowflake, a philosophical parable about the search for the meaning of existence; Wordless Hostages, a dark Cold War grotesque about two ruthless killers on the run... These and other deceptively simple, sad and funny stories of Paul Gallico about the struggle of goodness and humanity with the surrounding darkness and despair are published in this collection in translations of Oleg Dorman and with illustrations by Roman Rudnitsky.
The collection includes stories: “The White Goose”, “Verna”, “The Terrible Secret of Monsieur Bonval”, “The Hat”, “Wonderful Doll”, “Wonderless Hostages”, “Snowflake”.
In 1941, Gallico published The White Goose, a short story about the friendship of an unsociable artist living in an abandoned lighthouse and a girl from a fishing village who appeared on his doorstep with a wounded bird in her hands. This story of love and war, which earned Hemingway’s praise and changed the life of its author, was followed by Verna, a tragic story about a young actress unrequitedly in love with a scene; Snowflake, a philosophical parable about the search for the meaning of existence; Wordless Hostages, a dark Cold War grotesque about two ruthless killers on the run... These and other deceptively simple, sad and funny stories of Paul Gallico about the struggle of goodness and humanity with the surrounding darkness and despair are published in this collection in translations of Oleg Dorman and with illustrations by Roman Rudnitsky.
The collection includes stories: “The White Goose”, “Verna”, “The Terrible Secret of Monsieur Bonval”, “The Hat”, “Wonderful Doll”, “Wonderless Hostages”, “Snowflake”.
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