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Title	:	Stars and Bars
Author	:	William Boyd
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	1985 by Penguin (first published January 1st 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor

Stars and Bars

William Boyd

Paperback | Pages: 348 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 1379 Users | 75 Reviews

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Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literature’s most imaginative novelists.

A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserve and aspire to the impulsive and breezy nature of Americans. But when Loomis Gage, an eccentric millionaire, invites him to appraise his small collection of Impressionist paintings, Dores's plans quite literally go south. Stranded at a remote mansion in the Georgia countryside, Dores is received by the bizarre Gage family with Anglophobic slurs, nausea-inducing food, ludicrous death threats, and a menacing face off with competing art dealers. By the time he manages to sneak back to New York City–sporting only a cardboard box–Henderson Dores realizes he is fast on the way to becoming a naturalized citizen.

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Original Title:	Stars and Bars
ISBN:	0140075968 (ISBN13: 9780140075960)
Edition Language:	English

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This is dire. I love Boyd's work, his use of history, the mix of good and bad that happen to people, his apparently detailed research. This is an attempt at a farce, but it just falls flat. People end up in situations and places just because Boyd wants them there; he doesn't even bother with a rationale. This is close to being an insult to people who admire his books. Still read Boyd but don't waste your time with this one.

Having previously read the time like Any human heart Stars and Bars was a light relief. An easy rolling holiday read which made me laugh out loud.

Very funny, very literate fish-out-of-water story concerning a Brit-born art dealer, "an Impressionist man," now in NYC, forced to take a trip to the Deep South to corral the purchase of several million dollars' worth of paintings. He's recently begun a relationship with his ex-wife, who -- in the 15 years' interim -- married and divorced and has two kids, one a sulking 14-year-old girl. The protagonist is also in a relationship with another woman; neither woman is aware of the other's

The best thing I can say about this book is that I got in on sale at a used bookstore for less than $4. The story follows Henderson Dores, an English expatriate working in New York at an auction house (think Christie's), as he travels to Georgia to acquire artwork from an eccentric millionaire. Of course I was expecting some good-natured joshing on the South--something akin to My Cousin Vinnie or that Reese Witherspoon movie. Boyd's portrayal of Georgia, however, is more along the lines of

An English art historian - 'the Impressionist man' - at large in the USA. Working for the New York City branch of a London auction house, Henderson Dores is sent to the deep south to appraise a number of impressionist painting that his firm has been asked to auction. He becomes entangled with is ex wife's (possible soon to be his ex ex-wife) daughter, 14 years old and totally wild. He has to leave his other girlfriend and when he arrives at his destination, finds a house full of eccentrics,

I have just counted up the number of books written by William Boyd - 17 in the 30 years! That is prolific by anyone's standards. This novel is his 4th, published in 1984 and the 7th of his books I have read. Apart from Harry Potter books and Enid Blyton decades ago, I don't think I have read so many books by the same author. He really is very good. His stories full of interesting characters, trying to go about their normal lives but then finding themselves in difficult circumstances that somehow

Perhaps this fairly amusing novel could be seen as a kind of 20th-century corrective to Henry James, whose theme of innocent Americans floundering in ultra-sophisticated Europe is here turned on its head: sophisticated Brit art historian gets flummoxed by the outwardly Beverly Hillbillies-like rubes in Luxora Beach, GA who turn out to be grasping and corrupt, and rake him over pretty thoroughly. leaving him estranged from ex-wife and girlfriend, out of a job, and creeping uptown along Park Ave.