Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Spies (2002) won the Whitbread Best Novel Award. His most recent novel, Skios, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and, most recently, Afterlife. He is married to the writer Claire Tomalin.
发表于2024-12-23
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On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of his hand. So, even sooner, is Nikki, the attractive and efficient organiser. Meanwhile, in a remote villa at the other end of the island, Nikki's old school-friend Georgie waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with, and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality - everything he possesses apart from the flyblown text of a well-travelled lecture on the scientific organisation of science...
小幽默 小闹剧 一开始是冲着里面有对叫兽的描写才看的 setting很有意思
评分小幽默 小闹剧 一开始是冲着里面有对叫兽的描写才看的 setting很有意思
评分小幽默 小闹剧 一开始是冲着里面有对叫兽的描写才看的 setting很有意思
评分小幽默 小闹剧 一开始是冲着里面有对叫兽的描写才看的 setting很有意思
评分小幽默 小闹剧 一开始是冲着里面有对叫兽的描写才看的 setting很有意思
Skios 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书