Книга: Gardner John «Role of Honour»

Role of Honour

Серия: "James Bond"

People notice things and word around Whitehall is that Commander Bond is living a shade dangerously - gambling, the new Bentley, er... ladies, money changing hands... Following scandal and his shock resignation from Britain's Secret Intelligence Service James Bond becomes a gun for hire; able, and willing, to sell his lethal skills to the highest bidder. And SPECTRE, it seems, are eager to have the disgraced British super spy on their payroll. But before he can be fully embraced by his new employer - and deadliest enemy - 007 must first prove his loyalty. And in doing so he must threaten with nuclear annihilation everything he has fought his whole life to defend. Until honour is fully restored Gardner's stunning reinvention of Bond secured critical acclaim and blockbusting sales around the world. Role of Honour, the fourth book in the series, kept 007 at No. 1.

Издательство: "Orion Books" (2012)

ISBN: 978-1-4091-3565-4

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Gardner, John

▪ American author
in full  John Champlin Gardner, Jr.  
born July 21, 1933, Batavia, N.Y., U.S.
died Sept. 14, 1982, near Susquehanna, Pa.

      American novelist and poet whose philosophical fiction reveals his characters' inner conflicts.

      Gardner attended Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (A.B., 1955), and the University of Iowa (M.A., 1956; Ph.D., 1958) and then taught at various colleges and universities throughout the United States, including Oberlin (Ohio) College, Bennington (Vermont) College, and the University of Rochester, New York.

      Gardner published two novels, The Resurrection (1966) and The Wreckage of Agathon (1970), before his reputation was established with the appearance of Grendel (1971), a retelling of the Beowulf story from the point of view of the monster. His next novel, The Sunlight Dialogues (1972), is an ambitious epic with a large cast of characters. Later novels by Gardner include October Light (1976; National Book Critics Circle Award), Freddy's Book (1980), and Mickelsson's Ghosts (1982). He died in a motorcycle accident.

      Gardner was also a gifted poet and a critic who published several books on Old and Middle English poetry. He expressed his views about writing in On Moral Fiction (1978), in which he deplored the tendency of many modern writers toward pessimism, and in On Becoming a Novelist (1983) and The Art of Fiction (1984), both of which were published posthumously.

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Источник: Gardner, John

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