On the Yankee Station
โ Scribed by William Boyd
- Book ID
- 100295824
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
On the Yankee Station is a short story collection by William Boyd. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981; this collection was published later that same year, and includes two stories featuring Morgan Leafy, the anti-hero of the novel. The title comes from one of the stories which is set at Yankee Station an operations centre for the US Navy during the Vietnam War. The collection has been a set text for English A-Level
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