Jack Trevor Story (1917–1991)

Autore di The Trouble with Harry

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Jack Trevor Story was born in Hertford in 1917 and was published prolifically from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Trouble with Harry is his best-selling work and he is also known for the Albert Argyle trilogy and his Horace Spurgeon novels. Story was respected by many in the media; he wrote a weekly mostra altro column for The Guardian in the 1970s, and appeared on TV in the series Jack on the Box as well as writing several screenplays before his death in 1991. mostra meno

Comprende i nomi: Jack Trevor Story, Jach Trevor Story

Nota di disambiguazione:

(eng) Also wrote as Rex Riotta and Jack Trevor. His Large Type Killer was published under the name Richard Williams, a pseudonym he shared with Hank Jansen, Rex Dolphin and others.

Serie

Albert Argyle

Opere di Jack Trevor Story

Popolari Recenti

The Trouble with Harry (1970) 37 copie

Live Now, Pay Later (1963) 31 copie

The Urban District Lover (1969) 20 copie

Something for Nothing (1966) 14 copie

The Screwrape Lettuce (1979) 13 copie

Man Pinches Bottom (1979) 12 copie

Hitler Needs You (1970) 12 copie

Wind in the Snottygobble Tree (1971) 11 copie

One Last Mad Embrace (1970) 11 copie

Morag's Flying Fortress (1976) 11 copie

Live Now Pay Later : A Trilogy (1989) 8 copie

Albert Rides Again (1990) 7 copie

Jack on the Box (1979) 6 copie

Company of Bandits (1972) 5 copie

Dwarf Goes to Oxford (1987) 5 copie

Season of the Skylark (A Sexton Blake novel of classic detection) (1970) 4 copie

Dishonourable Member (1969) 4 copie

Little Dog's Day (1971) 4 copie

I Sit in Hanger Lane (1990) 3 copie

Crying Makes Your Nose Run (1974) 2 copie

Letters to an Intimate Stranger (1972) 2 copie

Story on Crime (1975) 2 copie

Blonde and the Boodle (1970) 2 copie

Pero... ¿quién mató a Harry? / Jack Trevor Story ; traducción Concha Cardeñoso Sáenz de Miera (2014) 2 copie

Mix Me a Person 1 copia

Danger's Child 1 copia

Murder in the Sun 1 copia

Blondin och kalla stålar 1 copia

Semester i skräck 1 copia

Lockbetet 1 copia

Kisvárosi hősszerelmes 1 copia

Immer Ärger mit Harry 1 copia

The money goes round and round 1 copia

Little dog's day 1 copia

Green to Pagan Street 1 copia

Protection for a lady 1 copia

Nine o'Clock Shadow 1 copia

une question d'heures 1 copia

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Opere correlate

Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds (2011) — Collaboratore — 10 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1917-3-30
Data di morte: 1991-12-5
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: UK
Luogo di nascita: Hertfordshire, England, UK
Attività lavorative: writer
novelist
screenwriter
author
Organizzazioni: www.jacktrevorstory.co.uk
Nota di disambiguazione: Also wrote as Rex Riotta and Jack Trevor. His Large Type Killer was published under the name Richard Williams, a pseudonym he shared with Hank Jansen, Rex Dolphin and others.

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Wind in the Snottygobble Tree di Jack Trevor Story

What a mess... the author entirely gives up towards the end, but he also skips the beginning so i i guess that evens out ;) ?
Touches of 60's surrealism i think but i might be just mistaking extreme confusion for the surreal. Some nice sixties illustrations in my copy ,which i also think might be the only version.

A spie comedy, feels like something Peter Sellers might have starred, except unfilmable due to some of its adult scenes.
As an example of the dark humour we're dealing with here, its implied a secret policeman raped a dog offscreen, stuff like that.

The spie stuff i couldn't follow at all, no idea who was working for who or why, probably intentional but still annoying.
Overall theres really nothing here, some fragments of ideas but nothing else.… (altro)

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wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |

One Last Mad Embrace di Jack Trevor Story

I feel a little bad for not liking this more. Its complete chaos a real 'shaggy dog' story as they say and it seems like something you should read at a quick pace but i've been in a bit of a rut lately so it went very slowly.

It is quite funny but there's also some really messed up stuff going on which can be a bit jarring. Also the main character is an author so he's constantly fictionalizing whats happening around him, usually coming up with some idea of whats going on that turns out to be completely wrong, add to that several characters who lie persistently.

After a while it felt like a british Thomas Pynchon novel or at least something like the Big Lebowski . Its quite filmic, which is normally a compliment but in this case it feels like it might actually work better on film than in book form. Although i can't imagine anyone willing to make something with a schoolgirl like in this :P . She was quite a problem for me but don't worry i don't think... it gets.. too creepy, your mileage may vary ;) . She's as uncertain as everything in this book, aged somewhere between 12 and 28.

Given the style of writing, which is almost meta, probably one of those books enjoyed more by other authors than casual readers.… (altro)

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wreade1872 | 1 altra recensione | Nov 28, 2021 |