· Inspired by Lam's own family history, The Headmaster's Wager tells the story of Chen Pie Sou, a man who can exercise the power of privilege Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Lam is an emergency physician in Toronto, as well as a lecturer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Other medical jobs have included international air evacuation and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Lam has written non-fiction and short stories; The Headmaster's Wager is his first novel. · The Headmaster's Wager (Hardcover) Published April 24th by Doubleday Canada. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Vincent Lam (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.
The Headmaster's Wager ebook By Vincent Lam. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. Author. Vincent Lam. Publisher. The Headmaster's Wager. From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive. Lam, Vincent The headmaster's wager / Vincent Lam. Issued also in electronic format. isbn I. Title. psah42 c'.6 c This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Inspired by Lam's own family history, The Headmaster's Wager tells the story of Chen Pie Sou, a man who can exercise the power of privilege but who also indulges recklessly in privilege's vices. Lam is an emergency physician in Toronto, as well as a lecturer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Other medical jobs have included international air evacuation and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Lam has written non-fiction and short stories; The Headmaster's Wager is his first novel. The suspense comes in the slow building of the disaster tha. Vincent Lam's THE HEADMASTER'S WAGER is a suspenseful character study set mainly in Vietnam during the civil war, told from a perspective that is unfamiliar to most Americans, that of a Chinese expat, Perceval Chen, who has lived in Vietnam for decades.
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