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Bryce Courtenay (1933–2012)

Autor/a de The Power of One

36+ obres 12,706 Membres 260 Ressenyes 24 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Bryce Courtenay

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

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BooksInMirror | Hi ha 6 ressenyes més | 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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Obres
36
També de
1
Membres
12,706
Popularitat
#1,841
Valoració
4.0
Ressenyes
260
ISBN
595
Llengües
10
Preferit
24

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