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The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1

The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1 Paperback / softback - 1997

by William Boyd

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"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 still obsseses him 30 years later.

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  • Title The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1
  • Author William Boyd
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-01-14
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780679772606
  • ISBN 9780679772606 / 067977260X
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.09 x 5.29 x 0.91 in (20.55 x 13.44 x 2.31 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the publisher

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.

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  • New York Times, 01/12/1997, Page 32
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/09/1996, Page 0

About the author

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.