Alexander Lernet-Holenia: I Was Jack Mortimer
I Was Jack Mortimer
Buch
- Übersetzung: Ignat Avsey
- Pushkin Press, 03/2024
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781805330370
- Bestellnummer: 11604225
- Umfang: 203 Seiten
- Gewicht: 367 g
- Maße: 195 x 131 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.3.2024
- Serie: Pushkin Classics
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Klappentext
"A terrific fast-moving book. . . a truly clever, rather wonderful book that both plays with and defies genre" - Irish TimesA taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim, and is caught into a dangerous spiral
Twice adapted for film, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia Highsmith.
"One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end."
A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late...
Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: outstanding classic storytelling from around the world, in a stylishly original series design. From newly rediscovered gems to fresh translations of the world's greatest authors, this series includes such authors as Stefan Zweig, Hermann Hesse, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Gaito Gazdanov.
Biografie (Alexander Lernet-Holenia)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia, geboren 1897 in Wien und ebenda 1976 gestorben, zählt zu den großen österreichischen Erzählern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Zusammen mit seiner Frau Eva Vollbach lebte Alexander Lernet-Holenia einige Jahre in St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee. Alexander Lernet-Holenia
I Was Jack Mortimer
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