The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1 - Paperback
by William Boyd
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Availability:In StockContributor:William BoydSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1997-01-14Pages:386
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679772606ISBN-10:067977260XUPC:9780679772606Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, PsychologicalSize:8.09 x 5.29 x 0.91 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCY8601CVT
The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1
"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), Boyd's atmospheric new novel confirms his reputation as heir to the grand narrative traditions of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679772606ISBN-10:067977260XUPC:9780679772606Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, PsychologicalSize:8.09 x 5.29 x 0.91 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCY8601CVT
William Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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