God of Speed
I will fly at last. I will unfold my wings. I will unpack my head. I will step back outside. One day I may even make love again. But one thing at a time. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Film mogul, aviator, addict, inventor, visionary, recluse, serial womanizer, and political meddler: Howard Hughes was one of the strangest and most significant figures of the 20th century. His obsessive-compulsive disorder would end up crippling and isolating him; in the end he self-medicated his way into oblivion. It's a summer night in 1973, and holed up in his hotel penthouse in London, Hughes can't sleep. Tomorrow he takes control of an airplane for the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-940207-57-5
- EAN: 9781940207575
- Produktnummer: 21804917
- Verlag: Rare Bird Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 275 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'219 KB
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Luke Davies is an Australian writer of novels and poetry. He has published two novels, Isabelle the Navigator and the cult bestseller Candy, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 1998. A film version of Candy, starring Heath Ledger, was released in 2006. Davies lives in Los Angeles.
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