A ladder to the sky : a novel

Resource Information

The work A ladder to the sky : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boxford Town Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A ladder to the sky : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

John Boyne

Creator

• Boyne, John, 1971-

Author

• Boyne, John, 1971-

Subject

• Betrayal -- Fiction
• Fame -- Fiction
• Authors -- Fiction
• Novelists -- Fiction
• Ambition -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Psychological fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn’t have is talent – but he’s not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don’t need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful – but desperately lonely – older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice’s first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall... Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

823/.92

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6102.O96

LC item number

L33 2018

Literary form

fiction