On the Yankee Station: Stories (Vintage International) - Kindle edition by Boyd, William. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading On the Yankee Station: Stories (Vintage International)/5(15). On The Yankee Station: Stories|William Boyd, Who Am I? (Compass Point Phonics Readers-Level A series)|Wiley Blevins, Tax Incidence and Income Redistribution An Introduction.|Horst Claus Recktenwald, Maya Zack: The Shabbat Room|Werner Hanak-Lettner. · In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimaets the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his 4/5(3).
In the title story, an arrogant, sadistic American pilot in Vietnam underestimaets the power of revenge when he relentlessly persecutes a member of his maintenance crew. With droll humor and rare compassion, Boyd's enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction's finest storytellers. I've given a lot of thought to this, and 'On the Yankee Station' is my favourite book, without doubt. I first came across William Boyd's short stories as a teenager, and they blew me away - Boyd is, in my opinion, the greatest living short story writer. The short story is a very different beast from the novel. On the Yankee Station Stories. William Boyd. $; $; Publisher Description. Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.
On The Yankee Station by William Boyd is a series of short stories, the longest of which provides the title for the set. This particular story is a superb piece of short fiction, much more than a short story, confronting, in less than twenty-five pages, several big issues and, at the same time, drawing its characters in considerable, complex detail. On The Yankee Station by William Boyd is a book of short stories, its title taken from the most substantial of the series. Set on an aircraft carrier in the Vietnam War, it tells of the ruthless bullying of a crew member by his superior, a pilot drunk on his own status. Revenge becomes a strong motivation. On The Yankee Station. Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys’ public school, oddballs on the seedy side of America, murder in a quiet Devon cottage are some of the subjects in this collection of short stories. It also includes two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, anti-hero of A Good Man in Africa. Buy the UK edition of On The Yankee Station.
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