Frank Baker The Birds review recensie en informatie over de Engelse speculatieve fictie thriller uit 1936. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de spannende roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Frank baker. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Frank Baker The Birds review en recensie
- “Against the novels written for wholesale consumption, the fantasies of Frank Baker are an unfailing delight.” (The New York Times)
- “The most original piece of imaginative fiction since Wells wrote The War of the Worlds.” (Birmingham Mail)
The Birds
- Auteur: Frank Baker (Engeland)
- Soort boek: speculatieve fictie thriller uit 1936
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Valancourt Books
- Omvang: 202 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $16,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de speculatieve fictie thriller van Frank Baker
Thousands, even millions, of birds are descending on London – gathering, sitting, watching. At first their arrival is met with curiosity and amusement, as people debate where the birds have come from and what they’re doing here. But soon the feathered invaders start to show their sinister side, attacking, maiming, and even killing in incidents of tremendous brutality and violence. Are they an example of nature gone horribly awry, or a paranormal manifestation? Only one thing is certain: their aim is the destruction of mankind, and nobody has any idea how to stop them.
Frank Baker’s avian apocalypse novel went largely unnoticed when first published, but after the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s film in 1963, Baker threatened to sue, believing the director had borrowed from his book. The text of this definitive edition of Baker’s classic is taken from his own copy of the book, in which he made hundreds of changes and corrections, never published until now. This edition also features an introduction by Hitchcock scholar Ken Mogg.
Frank Baker was born on 22 May 1908 in Hornsey, london. He was British writer of novels and short stories. His books that stand out, even today, are the novels The Birds (1936) and Miss Hargreaves (1940) and his memoir, I Follow But Myself (1968). Frank Baker died on 6 November 1983 in Porthleven, Cornwall of cancer at the age of 75.