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Stars and Bars

by William Boydliterary work· published 1984

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Stars and Bars, the third novel by Scottish author William Boyd, was first published in 1984 in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton, and in 1985 in the United States by William Morrow & Co. Boyd subsequently developed it as a screenplay and it was released as a film in 1988. The book tells the tragicomic story of attempts by visiting British art appraiser Henderson Dore, in New York City and the Deep South, to negotiate the cultural differences between British and American approaches to conducting business. Reviewing the novel for The New York Times, Caroline Seebohm said: "Mr. Boyd has some funny and perceptive things to say about English shyness as opposed to American spontaneity...

Adaptations (1)

Stars and Bars was adapted into a 1988 film.

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    Stars and Bars
    1988 · film · 94 min · dir. Pat O'Connor · IMDb ↗
    IMDb4.8

    A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

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