The Moneychangers by, Arthur HAILEY

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Présentation de l'Editeur

Arthur Hailey was born in 1920 at Luton, England, where he attended school, then worked as an office boy and clerk. At age nineteen, at the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force and rose through the ranks to become a pilot and Flight Lieutenant. In 1947 he emigrated to Canada where he was successively a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a full-time author in 1956 following the overnight success of his television play Flight into Danger which was perfomed world-wide, later becoming a novel and a film. Since then his outstandingly successful novels - which appear in twenty-seven languages - include The Final Diagnosis, In High Places, Hotel, Airport, Wheels, The Moneychangers andOverload Seven of Hailey's stories, includingThe Moneychangers, have been bought for film production.

Arthur Hailey married his wife, Sheila - also British-born - in 1951 and they have three children, Jane, Steven and Diane. Since 969 the Haileys have made their home at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.

If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;
for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unlods thee.
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Foul-cank'ring rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that's put to use more gold begets.
Venus and Adonis

FICHE TECHNIQUE DU LIVRE

TITRE : The Moneychangers
AUTEUR : Arthur HAILEY
EDITION : PAN BOOKS London and Sydney

FICTION

© Arthur Hailey 1975

Reliure : Brochée sur carton souple

Nombre de pages : 475 TABLE DES MATIÈRES : NON
Valeur selon état : Juin 2009 de 03€50 à 05€90

Poids : 250 grammes Format : 110 x 180 mm
I.S.B.N : 0 - 330 - 24603- 8 Code Barre = EAN : 9 780330 246033

Made and printed in Great Britain by
Richard Clay ( The Chauser Press), Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk.