Cary Grant by Charles Higham
A NATIONAL BOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONORE WINER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NYPL'S YOUNG LION'S FICTION AWARD Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Southern Living, Electric Literature, The Root, The Guardian, Bustle, Thrillist, and Publisher's WeeklyA dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In Who Will Greet You at Home, a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In Wild, a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In The Future Looks Good, three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in Light, a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to fix the equation of a person - with rippling, unforeseen repercussions. Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.
Son of the advertising pioneer Sir Charles Frederick Higham, MP, Charles Higham is the author of Howard Hughes: The Secret Life, a basis of the film The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. His Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor, has been a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and he has written bestselling lives of Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Orson Welles. A former New York Times feature writer and recipient of the Academie Francaise Prize of the Creators, he lives in Los Angeles.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780151157877 |
| ISBN 10 | 0151157871 |
| Title | Cary Grant |
| Author | Charles Higham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning EMEA |
| Year published | 1989-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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