Книга: Nicholas Evans «The Brave»
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Серия: "-" 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. Издательство: "Little, Brown and Company" (2009)
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3921-9 Купить за 743 руб в My-shop |
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Nicholas Evans
| Nicholas Evans | |
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| Born | 1950 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England) 1 |
| Occupation | Journalist, screenwriter, film producer, novelist. |
| Genres | Fantasy, Mystery |
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Nicholas Evans (born 26 July 1950) is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist. Evans was born at in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas. He then studied journalism and worked as a newspaper reporter and television screenwriter. He lives in Devon. He has a son, Max Evans, who is head of geography at Preston Manor High School, and a daughter, Lauren. He also has another son, Harry, from a relationship he had with Jane Hewland, the TV producer famous for Network 7 and Gamesmaster.
His novel, The Horse Whisperer was No. 10 on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1995 as determined by the New York Times. With 15 million copies sold, it is on the list of the best-selling books of all time.[1] In the UK, The Horse Whisperer was listed on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book". Made into a motion picture in 1998, Robert Redford directed and starred in the film version opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, along with Scarlett Johansson and Sam Neill.
Evans is married to singer/songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming.
Evans, Cumming, and several of their relatives were poisoned in September 2008 after consuming Deadly webcap mushrooms that they gathered on holiday. The poisoning was non-fatal, though Evans and the others had to undergo kidney dialysis,[2] and he underwent a transplant in 2011 using a kidney donated by his daughter.[3]
Evans has revealed on his personal website that he has agreed an option to make a movie of his third novel, The Smoke Jumper.[4]
Bibliography
- The Horse Whisperer (1995)
- The Loop (1998)
- The Smoke Jumper (2001)
- The Divide (2005)
- The Brave (2010)
References
- ^ The Forres Gazette on The Horse Whisperer: "Mr Evans is the author of "The Horse Whisperer", which sold 15 million copies worldwide and was made into a Hollywood film in 1998 directed by and starring Robert Redford." (10 September 2008)
- ^ "Horse Whisperer author, Nicholas Evans, poisoned by wild mushrooms" by Charlene Sweeney, The Times, 3 September 2008.
- ^ "Horse whisperer: how my daughter saved my life" in The Daily Telegraph, 2nd August, 2011.
- ^ http://www.nicholasevans.com/ Nicholas Evans' Personal Website.
External links
- 1950 births
- Living people
- People from Bromsgrove
- English journalists
- English screenwriters
- English film producers
- English television producers
- English novelists
- Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Old Bromsgrovians
- British film biography stubs
- English novelist stubs
Источник: Nicholas Evans
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