In Ronnie's Court
by John le Carré
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John le Carrés (f. 1931) muntre beretning om opvæksten hos faderen Ronnie Cornwell, der var svindler og om forholdet mellem de to og den øvrige familie. Faderens forførende personlighed og mange forbrydelser og bedragerier beskrives og kunne være stof til Le Carrés krimier.Tags
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England og resten af verden, ca 1930-2000.
Indeholder kapitlerne "Om at blive født og andre eventyr", "Min første fængselsoplevelse", "Om Ronnie og Olives forelskelse og diskrete onkel Alec", "Jeg hyrer detektiver for at efterforske mit egentlige jeg", "Min mor, Olive, kaster sig ud i en hemmelig mission, og jeg bliver fotograferet til benefice for en død kvinde", "Da Rothschilderne stod ansigt til ansigt med Churchills hemmelige agent", "En formidabel ambassadør og et luksushotel fratager Ronnie hans golfkøller", "Jeg afsoner en lang fængselsstraf for min far og bøder for forbrydelser som jeg ikke har begået", "En talentspejder udvælger mig til et liv som munk, og jeg bliver skældt ud af en østrigsk portier".
John le Carré show more fortæller om sin opvækst hos sin storsvindlende far. Faderen sørger pænt for at sønnerne Tony og John kommer i fine skoler.
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Indeholder kapitlerne "Om at blive født og andre eventyr", "Min første fængselsoplevelse", "Om Ronnie og Olives forelskelse og diskrete onkel Alec", "Jeg hyrer detektiver for at efterforske mit egentlige jeg", "Min mor, Olive, kaster sig ud i en hemmelig mission, og jeg bliver fotograferet til benefice for en død kvinde", "Da Rothschilderne stod ansigt til ansigt med Churchills hemmelige agent", "En formidabel ambassadør og et luksushotel fratager Ronnie hans golfkøller", "Jeg afsoner en lang fængselsstraf for min far og bøder for forbrydelser som jeg ikke har begået", "En talentspejder udvælger mig til et liv som munk, og jeg bliver skældt ud af en østrigsk portier".
John le Carré show more fortæller om sin opvækst hos sin storsvindlende far. Faderen sørger pænt for at sønnerne Tony og John kommer i fine skoler.
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Jul 28, 2024Danish
Random House Mondadori / DeBolsillo 2008. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. ISBN: 9788434199309. Biografías y Memorias. El novelista británico John le Carré (seudónimo de David John Moore Cornwell) retrata en este libro la vida de su padre, Ronnie Cornwell, timador y buscavidas que terminó en prisión más de una vez pero que hasta que murió en 1975 quiso dar la imagen de un hombre respetable. 3
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David John Moore Cornwell was born in Poole, Dorsetshire, England in 1931. He attended Bern University in Switzerland from 1948-49 and later completed a B.A. at Lincoln College, Oxford. He taught at Eton from 1956-58 and was a member of the British Foreign Service from 1959 to 1964. He writes espionage thrillers under the pseudonym John le Carré. show more The pseudonym was necessary when he began writing, in the early 1960s because, at that time, he held a diplomatic position with the British Foreign Office and was not allowed to publish under his own name. When his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became a worldwide bestseller in 1964, he left the foreign service to write full time. His other works include Call for the Dead; A Murder of Quality; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; and Smiley's People. He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1986 and the Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association in 1988. In 2011 he accepted the Goethe Medal. And in 2020, he accepted the Olof Palme Prize. Ten of his books have been adapted for television and motion pictures including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Russia House, The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man, and Our Kind of Traitor. Le Carré's memoir, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life, became a New York Times bestseller in 2016. In 2019, he published a spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field. John Le Carré died on December 12, 2020 from pneumonia at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) John le Carre was born in 1931. After attending the univesities of Berne and Oxford, he spent five years in the British Foreign Service. He's the author of eighteen novels, translated into twenty-five languages. He lives in England. (Publisher Provided) show less
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