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Arthur Hailey (1920–2004)

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Television film writer Arthur Hailey was born in England in 1920, where he was a decorated pilot in the RAF from 1939 to 1947. When he was 27, he emigrated to Canada where he served in the RCAF in 1951. Hailey was best known as author of over twenty television plays. His first, Flight into Danger vis mere (1956), was conceived on a business trip when he imagined what would happen if the pilots became unable to land the plane and he had to step in. Drawing on his professional history but with no experience in the publishing industry, he blind-mailed his script and it was accepted. While the TV-movie genre made his reputation as a writer, Hailey has gone on to write a number of novels, including In High Places (1962), Hotel (1965), Airport (1968),The Moneychangers (1975), Strong Medicine (1984) and Detective (1997). All his novels have been published in foreign-language editions, and many have been adapted for the screen. He died of a suspected stroke in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Værker af Arthur Hailey

Airport (1968) 1,432 eksemplarer
Hotel (1965) 1,120 eksemplarer
Banken (1975) 806 eksemplarer
Bilernes by (1971) 728 eksemplarer
Sidste nyt! (1990) 724 eksemplarer
Stærk medicin (1984) 665 eksemplarer
Slutspil (1997) 663 eksemplarer
Overload (1979) 637 eksemplarer
Den sidste diagnose (1959) 541 eksemplarer
In High Places (1962) 424 eksemplarer
Farlig landing (1958) 319 eksemplarer
Detective [2005 TV movie] (2005) — Forfatter — 8 eksemplarer
Siste sending [2] 7 eksemplarer
Siste sending [1] (1990) 3 eksemplarer
Suprasarcin@02D8a = Overload (1994) 2 eksemplarer
Letališče 2 eksemplarer
Peniaze (1990) 2 eksemplarer
Hotel: The Complete Collection (2016) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Biblioteca de Selecciones (1993) 2 eksemplarer
COLAPSO 2 eksemplarer
Um minuto para morrer 2 eksemplarer
Kolesa 1 eksemplar
Vechernie novosti (2012) 1 eksemplar
Denar 1 eksemplar
Močno zdravilo 1 eksemplar
Ultime notizie 1 eksemplar
Overload, book 2 of 2 (1981) 1 eksemplar
Selezione dal libro 1 eksemplar
Airport. SIGNED. 1 eksemplar
Los cambistas 1975 1 eksemplar
Últimas noticias (1995) 1 eksemplar
News 1 eksemplar
Sidste nyt! bind 1 1 eksemplar
Sidste nyt! bind 2 1 eksemplar
Stiprās zāles (2010) 1 eksemplar
Medicina Peligrosa, Volumen 1 (1986) 1 eksemplar
HAVA ALANI 1 eksemplar
GECE TERORU (1993) 1 eksemplar
Holiday Makers 1 eksemplar
DIAGNOSTICO FINAL (1965) 1 eksemplar
Overload, book 1 of 2 (1981) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1979 v01 (1979) — Forfatter — 27 eksemplarer
Airport '77 [1977 film] (2017) — Original book — 16 eksemplarer
Hotel [1967 film] (2011) — Original novel — 10 eksemplarer
Hochspannung (1981) 3 eksemplarer
Flug in Gefahr [1964 film] (2009) — Original book — 1 eksemplar

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A thrilling read set in the world of 1950s American hospitals and their power relationships. The reader is invited to explore how they would cope with being married to a disabled person.
 
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INeilC | 7 andre anmeldelser | Feb 24, 2024 |
This is one of the better ones from Hailey, with plenty of background story, lots of threads being pulled together and a believable level of big corporation workings. [return][return]Set around the workings of a TV newsroom, this has the workings from the top to the bottom of how to get an evening News programme to air (long before 24 hour TV was invented), and what people would do to get - or be - the story
 
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nordie | 7 andre anmeldelser | Oct 14, 2023 |
Another widereaching story from Hailey, this time dealing with banks.

As the day begins at First Mercantile American Bank, so do the high-stake risks, the public scandals, and the private affairs. It is the inside world where secret million-dollar deals are made, manipulated, and sweetened with sex by the men and women who play to win.

It's a little dated (written around 1975, and just after Watergate), but the underlying principles are still the same - the moving of money, the gold standard, the relationship of the bank managers to the tellers, investigations into wide fraud etc.

Hailey is showing his strengths in showing both the wider view, plus the small personal details. There's the security men, the Branch and the Bank Mangers, the tellers and enough background story to explain why they do what they do, and the principles they adhere too
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nordie | 4 andre anmeldelser | Oct 14, 2023 |
The book that launched the TV series of the same name.[return][return]Once again displaying Hailey's ability to show both the large and small detail of a big entity (being a hotel, or a bank or an airport).[return][return]This tells the story from the point of view of the manager of a medium sized independant hotel that is slightly down on its luck and on the verge of being brought out by a large chain of faceless hotels. The small things (the small frauds, the fire alarm causing evacuations, the tarts touting for business in the bar) to the larger issues, such as trying to keep the hotel afloat whilst preventing the hostile takeover. [return][return]You can imagine that the overall day to day details and challenges of running a hotel havent really changed so although this was written 40 years ago it hasnt really dated that much… (mere)
 
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nordie | 20 andre anmeldelser | Oct 14, 2023 |

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