Book: Brave in English
Title: Brave
ISBN,EAN: 9781408702895
Author: Evans, Nicholas
Publisher: Little, Brown, 2010Availability: 1 piece in stock
Description
Publisher text
Nový román milovníka koní prináša skvelé čítanie.
Odvážnemu šťastie praje. To je heslo internátnej školy, do ktorej prichádza koncom 50, rokov Tomy. V prostredí grobianov a hrubých kolegov je samotárom, snívajúcim o kovbojoch a indiánov. Záblesk do jeho života prinesie nečakaná kariéra sestry v Hollywoode. Ale čoskoro zavanie chlad studenej vojny. 4O rokov neskôr sa za záhadných okolností dostane jeho syn do podozrenia z vraždy.
The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is
Fortune Favours the Brave. It`s 1959 and the school bristles with
bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys
and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon.
Salvation
comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one
of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming,
the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon
find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his
boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.









