With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing f A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines od authora Barry Hines a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Barry Hines |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
208 |
Rok vydání |
2000 |
Nakladatelství |
Penguin Books |