A Kestrel for a Knave, Hines Barry

Автор: Barry Hines
Название: A Kestrel for a Knave
ISBN: 0141184981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141184982
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk.

Автор: Hines Barry
Название: A Kestrel for a Knave (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
ISBN: 1941147887 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941147887
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Описание: Billy Casper is a fifteen-year-old with no future, growing up in poverty and seemingly destined to follow his older brother into a life of toil in the coal mines. Life at home is hard: his father has left, his mother's main interest is in picking up men at the pub, and his brother bullies him mercilessly. Nor are things better at school, where Billy is tormented by the other kids and treated as a troublemaker by the teachers. But a spark of hope enters Billy's lonely existence when he discovers a young kestrel hawk, Kes, and learns to train it. Billy gives to Kes all the love and devotion he has been denied, and in the hawk's silent strength and fierce independence he finds inspiration and the courage to survive.

An enduring work of English fiction, Barry Hines's bestseller A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) has never been out of print in Great Britain, where both the book and Ken Loach's film adaptation Kes (1969) have long been regarded as classics. This edition, the first ever published in the United States, will allow American readers to discover this timeless and moving novel.

'A masterpiece ... Billy Casper is as memorable a young character as any post-war writer has created.' - Glasgow Herald

Автор: Hines, Barry Evans, Robert Alan
Название: Kes
ISBN: 0573150230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780573150234
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Описание: A new adaptation of the classic book A Kestrel for a Knave, Kes tells the story of a day in the life of Billy Casper; a 15-year-old boy about to leave school and determined not to end up working down the pit like his older brother Jud.

Автор: Barry Hines
Название: A Kestrel for a Knave
ISBN: 0141041706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141041704
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Reissue. Forms part of Penguin`s 75th anniversary Decades series.

Автор: Hines, Barry
Название: A Kestrel for a Knave (A Penguin Essential) [R/I]
ISBN: 0241978963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241978962
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968, and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school.

He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.