A Quiver Full of Arrows - Hardcover

Archer, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671426028 ISBN 13: 9780671426026

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1982

Synopsis

A collection of short fiction from the author of "The Prodigal Daughter" feature such inventive and versatile tales as "One Night Stand," "Old Love," and "The Chinese Statue"

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From the Back Cover:

THE MOST ORDINARY LIVES...
In the auction room at Sotheby's a bidder unlocks the astonishing secrets carved in the ivory of an ancient Chinese statue. A young couple well-versed in the romance of literature resists the cliché of "love at first sight" only to find an unanticipated bond that follows them through life and death. A lavish New York party reacquaints a successful novelist with an enthusiastic female fan and a forgotten, long-ago rendezvous. A stunning beauty fulfills the disparate fantasies of two different men and satisfies an unexpected need of her own...

CAN YIELD THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY SURPRISES...
In this expert collection, "master entertainer" (Time) and bestselling author Jeffrey Archer takes the reader from the backrooms of a curious little shop in Ha Li Chuan to the lavish hotel suites of Manhattan to the ravaged landscape of Budapest to explore the chance encounters and turns of fate that become us all. Here are stories of kind strangers and old friends, of grandiose success and devastating loss, of honor betrayed and redeemed, and of love lost and found-each punctuated with a twist as sharp, as true, and as unexpected as life itself.

"Somerset Maugham never penned anything so swift or urbanely witty as this."
-Publishers Weekly

"Amusing...poignant."-The New York Times

"Exciting...Archer offers versatility, laughter, inventive plotting and a gift for characterization."-Baltimore Sun

About the Author:

Jeffrey Archer was educated at Oxford University, where as a world-class sprinter he represented Great Britain in international competition. He became the youngest member of the House of Commons in 1969, was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party in 1985, and was elevated to the House of Lords in 1992. All of his story collections and novels -- from 1974's Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less to 1993's Honor Among Thieves -- have been international bestsellers. Mr. Archer is married, has two children, and lives in Cambridge, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0671426028
• ISBN 13: 9780671426026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 189