Gerald Kersh životopis

britská, 1911 - 1968

Životopis

V Anglii narozený americký spisovatel. Začal psát již v osmi letech. Po škole pracoval jako ředitel kina, bodyguard, vymahač dluhů, pekař, obchodní cestující, učitel francouzštiny, ... a do toho se snažil uplatnit jako spisovatel.



Díla:
Jews without Jehovah (1934)
Men Are So Ardent (1935)
Night and the City (1938) (ISBN 0-7434-1304-0 - reprint); also titled Dishonour
I Got References (1939), stories
The Nine Lives of Bill Nelson (1942)
They Die with Their Boots Clean (1942)
Brain and Ten Fingers (1943)
Selected Stories (1943)
The Dead Look On (1943)
Faces in a Dusty Picture (1944)
The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories (1944)
The Weak and the Strong (1945)
An Ape, a Dog and a Serpent (1945)
Sergeant Nelson of the Guards (1945)
Clean, Bright and Slightly Oiled (1946), stories
Neither Man nor Dog: Short Stories (1946)
Sad Road to the Sea (1947), stories
The Song of the Flea (1948)
Clock Without Hands (1949), stories
The Thousand Deaths of Mr. Small (1951)
The Brazen Bull (1952), stories
Prelude to a Certain Midnight (1953) (ISBN 0-486-24536-5)
The Great Wash (1953), issued as The Secret Masters in the US
The Brighton Monster and Other Stories (1953)
Guttersnipe (1954), stories
Men Without Bones (1955), stories
Fowler's End (1958)
On an Odd Note (1958), stories
Men Without Bones (US) (1960), stories
The Ugly Face of Love and Other Stories (1960)
The Best of Gerald Kersh (1960), edited by Simon Raven
The Implacable Hunter (1961)
More Than Once Upon a Time (1964), stories
The Hospitality of Miss Tolliver (1965), stories
A Long Cool Day in Hell (1966)
The Angel and the Cuckoo (1966)
Nightshade and Damnations (1968), stories, edited by Harlan Ellison
Brock (1969)
The Terrible Wild Flowers: Nine Stories (1980)
Karmesin: The World's Greatest Criminal - or Most Outrageous Liar (2003), stories (ISBN 1-932009-03-5)
The World, the Flesh, & the Devil: Fantastical Writings, Volume I (2006) (ISBN 1-55310-092-1) (zdroj životopisu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Kersh)

Ocenění

Gerald Kersh - knihy

1947  100%Výcviková četa

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