A ladder to the sky
(2018)
Fiction
Large Type
Call Numbers:
LARGE TYPE/FICTION/BOYNE,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018
©2018
©2018
EDITION
Large Print edition
DESCRIPTION
583 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781432859725, 1432859722 :, 1432859722, 9781432859725
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall