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Sandstorm

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Former foreign correspondent Charles Mortimer is all washed up, living a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan, wondering how things could have gone so wrong for him. A chance discovery of a newspaper obituary takes him back to the beginning of his career, when he was a young, hopeful man reporting from the Sahara Desert in the company of beautiful French photographer Celeste Dumas. The two narrowly escape death by bullet, grenade, thirst and heatstroke and, ultimately, drowning. By the end of their adventure, Mortimer has begun his life as a successful, cynical journalist. Fifteen years roll by, and Mortimer finds himself again in Algeria, where he perpetrates the great error of his professional life and realizes, finally, what it was he lost so long ago in the desert wastes. <b>By the winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award, <i>Guardian</i> First Book Award and <i>The Times</i> First Book Award.</b>

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Sandstorm, Henry Shukman

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Pubblicato
2006
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Titolo
Sandstorm
Lingua
Inglese
Editore
Vintage
Pubblicato
2006
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
256
ISBN10
0099468492
ISBN13
9780099468493
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Tag
Descrizione
Former foreign correspondent Charles Mortimer is all washed up, living a hand-to-mouth existence in Manhattan, wondering how things could have gone so wrong for him. A chance discovery of a newspaper obituary takes him back to the beginning of his career, when he was a young, hopeful man reporting from the Sahara Desert in the company of beautiful French photographer Celeste Dumas. The two narrowly escape death by bullet, grenade, thirst and heatstroke and, ultimately, drowning. By the end of their adventure, Mortimer has begun his life as a successful, cynical journalist. Fifteen years roll by, and Mortimer finds himself again in Algeria, where he perpetrates the great error of his professional life and realizes, finally, what it was he lost so long ago in the desert wastes. <b>By the winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award, <i>Guardian</i> First Book Award and <i>The Times</i> First Book Award.</b>