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On the Yankee Station is a short story collection by William Boyd. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981; this collection was published later that same year, and includes two stories featuring Morgan Leafy, the anti-hero of the novel.
- William Boyd
- 1981
Jun 30, 2021 · On the Yankee station : Boyd, William, 1952- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Boyd, William, 1952- Publication date. 1982. Topics. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction. Publisher. Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language.
Jun 30, 2011 · On the Yankee station : stories by Boyd, William, 1952-Publication date 1984 Publisher New York : W. Morrow Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor
On the Yankee station by Boyd, William, 1952-Publication date 1988 Publisher London : Penguin Books Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor ...
Jan 1, 1981 · On the Yankee Station is what happens to a bully when someone hates them. The setting in Vietnam on an aircraft carrier and the injustice of a pilots fixation on an innocent mechanic comes back to bite him.
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In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate to redeem their unsatisfying lives.From California poolsides to the battlegrounds of Vietnam, here is a world populated by weary souls who turn to fantasy as their sole escape from life's inequities.
Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school ... Oddballs on the seedy side of America ... Murder in a quiet Devon cottage ... Comical, ironical or lacerating - wit is the keynote of these stories, which include two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, glorious anti-hero of William Boyd's prize-winning novel ‘A Good Man in Africa’.
