TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyne,John
TI  - A ladder to the sky: a novel 
SN  - 9781984823014
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Hogarth
KW  - Authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Novelists
KW  - Fame
KW  - Ambition
KW  - Betrayal
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - 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
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