A ladder to the sky
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Boyne
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781984823014
Subjects: Authors; Betrayal; Ambition; Novelists; Fame; Fiction
Description: Aspiring writer Maurice Swift, whose desire for fame exceeds his talent, uses a chance meeting with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann in a West Berlin hotel in 1988 to obtain secrets about Ackermann's wartime activities, which becomes material for his first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall.