About The Author: A. Colin Wright was innate as well as lifted in Chelmsford, Essex, England. After portion as a linguist in a British Royal Air Force, Wright attended Cambridge University, where he warranted undergraduate as well as connoisseur degrees. In 1961 he lived for 6 months in Sassari, Sardinia, followed a subsequent year by a longer duration in Reggio Calabria. He speaks 6 languages pretty fluently (including Italian), as well as can event along in dual more. In 1964, he was allocated highbrow of Russian during Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He remained during Queen’s until his early retirement in 1999 as well as still resides there today. Dr. Wright is tied together as well as has dual grown sons.
“Based upon his own time upon Sardinia, Wright’s new enthralling as well as oftentimes waggish novel Sardinian Silver follows a exploits of a immature male perplexing to find adore whilst assimilating to an archaically approved society. Sardinia in a 1960s was still really culturally undeveloped: a residents noticed mainland Italians as well as continentals (the British counted between them) as incorrigible as well as infested by complicated society.
Featuring: Sardinian Silver by A. Colin Wright
To Arthur Fraser, a immature Englishman, Sardinia in 1960 is perfect. It’s an island filled with Roman ruins, outlandish scenery, internal customs, as well as implicitly normal values-he loves everything. To cushion in to a bizarre as well as go to a multitude opposite from his own has regularly been his desire. Arthur arrives in a review locale of Alghero to work as a deputy for a traveller company. His aspiration is to find a Sard lady for himself. He is fast thwarted, though, by a approved ideology of a inhabitants. Unmarried couples cannot encounter but chaperones, as well as any a single with “continental” attitudes is immoral. Arthur fast learns which dating is diligent with genuine dangers. When Arthur eventually falls in adore with Anna, a Sard girl, he discovers which she lives in Rome as well as is no longer supposed during home. But she afterwards falls in adore with a single of his most appropriate friends, as well as Arthur becomes irrationally obsessed. He ceaselessly schemes about winning behind her affections, notwithstanding her efforts to inhibit him. In Sardinian Silver, writer Wright remarkably evokes a puzzling society, a decorated people, as well as a Island’s beauty. Like Arthur, you’ll never wish to leave Sardinia, with a far-reaching sands, low hills, sun, as well as blue sea as well as a extraneous amenity of life.
Book Details:
Publisher: IUniverse (October 28, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0595481000
ISBN-13: 978-0595481002
Paperback: 196 Pages
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
Genre: Fiction
Paperback Price: .95
E-Book Price: .00
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Submission Date: May 2010
