Will Self

Broschiertes Buch

Shark

Beschreibung

Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded.

Autor

Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2008, Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012, and Shark. His most recent novel, Phone, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in south London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin UK
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780141046389
• ISBN-10: 0141046384
• Artikelnr.: 41462808