Restless Contributor(s): Boyd, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596912375 ISBN-13: 9781596912373 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: In this absorbing historical thriller . . . Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976.--"The New Yorker." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Historical - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.52" W x 8.26" (0.72 lbs) 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: RESTLESS by William Boyd is now a two-part movie starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, and Rufus Sewell, airing on the BBC in the UK and on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. in December, 2012. |
Contributor Bio(s): Boyd, William: - William Boyd is the author of more than a dozen novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet and adapted into a Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a Richard & Judy selection; Ordinary Thunderstorms and the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for Sunrise. William Boyd lives in London and France. |