by William Boyd · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470016
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«Barras y estrellas» is the humorous novel by William Boyd, published by Alfaguara in paperback (318 pages, in Spanish).
Henderson Dores, a thirty-nine-year-old English art appraiser in New York, admires the United States and dreams of fitting into its society. A business trip to Luxora Beach, a town between Georgia and Alabama, confronts him with an eccentric family of millionaires and absurd situations. The novel combines humor, social criticism, action and intrigue.
Original title: Stars and Bars, published in English in 1984. This paperback edition is the Spanish translation by Alfaguara.
For readers who enjoy comedy of errors, the cultural clash between England and the United States, and social satire.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
