On the Yankee Station
First edition (UK) | |
| Author | William Boyd |
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| Cover artist | Craig Dodd |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hamish Hamilton (UK) William Morrow (US) |
Publication date | 1981 (UK), 1982 (US) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print & eBook |
| Pages | 186 |
| ISBN | 0-241-10426-2 |
| 823'.914[F] | |
On the Yankee Station is a short story collection by William Boyd. His first novel, A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981; this collection was published later that same year, and includes two stories featuring Morgan Leafy, the anti-hero of the novel. The title comes from one of the stories which is set at Yankee Station, an operations centre for the US Navy during the Vietnam War. The collection has been a set text for English A-Level.