by James Wilson · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571215195
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«The Bastard Boy» is the historical novel by James Wilson, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Ned Gudgeon wakes up in a cell without remembering how he got there and, with paper and pen, writes his story: the search for his missing nephew. The trail leads him from the slave port of Bristol to the American colonies on the eve of the revolution, passing through a Carolina plantation, Mount Vernon and the lands beyond the Appalachians.
Published in 2005 by Faber & Faber. The action is set during the Seven Years' War and in colonial America on the eve of the revolution.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction, especially those interested in the American colonial period and the Seven Years' War.
James M. Wilson is an American biomedical researcher and CEO of two biotech companies, Gemma Biotherapeutics and Franklin Biolabs, focused on gene therapies. He previously served as the Director of the Gene Therapy Program, Rose H. Weiss Professor and Director of the Orphan Disease Center, and Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he held the John Herr Musser endowed professorship at the Perelman School of Medicine.
