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Bryce Courtenay (1933–2012)

Auteur de La Puissance de l'ange

36+ oeuvres 12,706 utilisateurs 260 critiques 24 Favoris

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Bryce Courtenay was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 14, 1933. He studied journalism in London and then settled in Australia in 1958. Instead of becoming a journalist, he went into advertising and became a successful creative director. He won most of the local and international afficher plus advertising awards and a gold medal for Best Documentary at the 1984 New York Film Festival. He started writing after he turned 50. His first novel, The Power of One, was adapted into a 1992 film starring Morgan Freeman and Stephen Dorff. His other novels include Jessica, The Potato Factory, Tommo and Hawk, Solomon's Song, Tandia, and Jack of Diamonds. In 1993, he wrote the non-fiction book April Fool's Day, which is a personal account of the death of his son Damon after he contracted AIDs from a routine blood transfusion. Courtenay died of stomach cancer on November 22, 2012 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de Bryce Courtenay

La Puissance de l'ange (1989) 4,682 exemplaires
Tandia (1992) 876 exemplaires
The Potato Factory (1995) 846 exemplaires
Jessica (1998) 676 exemplaires
Tommo & Hawk (1997) 616 exemplaires
April Fool's Day (1993) 578 exemplaires
Solomon's Song (1999) 516 exemplaires
Four Fires (2001) 474 exemplaires
Matthew Flinders' Cat (2003) 436 exemplaires
The Persimmon Tree (2007) 378 exemplaires
Brother Fish (2004) 368 exemplaires
Whitethorn (2005) 336 exemplaires
Sylvia (2006) 329 exemplaires
Fishing for Stars (2008) 215 exemplaires
Smoky Joe's Cafe (1973) 197 exemplaires
The Story of Danny Dunn (2009) 191 exemplaires
The Family Frying Pan (1997) 180 exemplaires
Fortune Cookie (1657) 180 exemplaires
Jack of Diamonds (2012) 151 exemplaires
A Recipe for Dreaming (1992) 70 exemplaires
The Night Country (1998) 61 exemplaires
The Australian Trilogy (2000) 56 exemplaires
The Pitch (1992) 9 exemplaires
The Power of One, Part 2 (1991) 2 exemplaires
La Potencia de Uno 1 exemplaire
The Power of One (2006) 1 exemplaire
Tommo & Hawk a Format Head (2005) 1 exemplaire
The Power of One. (1999) 1 exemplaire
Posters Bryce Courtenay (Heade (2006) 1 exemplaire
The Family Frying Pan 1 exemplaire

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Coming-of-age
 
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BooksInMirror | 4 autres critiques | Feb 19, 2024 |
I tried. I gave it 180 pages (out of about 500), but the whole concept left me cold, and there are plenty of other books I could be reading.
What a wise and other-worldly eleven (or twelve, who knows?) year old is Sylvia. THe wonderful singing voice I can accept, but the trick with birds? It all became too much for me. And the Pied Piper of Hamelin; a crusade that might or might not (probably not) have happened; and miracles, or at least events being mistaken for miracles.
Enough.
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Œuvres
36
Aussi par
1
Membres
12,706
Popularité
#1,841
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
260
ISBN
595
Langues
10
Favoris
24

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