Gerald Hanley (1916–1992)
Autore di The Consul at Sunset
Sull'Autore
Opere di Gerald Hanley
Utpost i Afrika 1 copia
Mørk rus 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1916-02-17
- Data di morte
- 1992-09-07
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di residenza
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK (birth)
Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland (death)
Kenya
Somaliland - Attività lavorative
- novelist
soldier
travel writer - Relazioni
- Hanley, James (brother)
- Breve biografia
- Born in Liverpool to a poor Irish family from Cork, Hanley was overshadowed throughout his life by his older brother James. He joined the army at the beginning of the Second World War and used his military experiences as the basis of several novels. In the 1950s, Ernest Hemingway singled him out as the foremost of the rising generation of English novelists.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 181
- Popolarità
- #119,336
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 29
- Preferito da
- 2
The managers who were single or had left wives back home in England, usually acquired a young native girl as a mistress. Most of the characters abuse alcohol to fill in the time and relieve their boredom. All cooking seemed to be done by Africans who were often criticized and abused because they did not know proper cooking methods.
In the novel when the manager used violence to control his workers even though he knew it could lead to trouble and that better pay would have ended the unrest, he does not send a request to London for better working conditions.… (altro)