Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel - Rilegato

Boyd, William

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ISBN 10: 0061876747 ISBN 13: 9780061876745

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2010

Riassunto

After a chance meeting with a stranger leads Adam Kindred to lose his home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards and mobile phone, soon both the London police and a hired killer are after him and, with nowhere to turn, Adam joins the vast army of the missing that live underground as he tries to sort through what's left of his life. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Boyd has constructed a narrative machine of hilarious, near-impossible intricacy for the purpose of demonstrating that identity is fragile and that instinct, for better or worse, is not. . . . He is a debonair, versatile, casually philosophical literary entertainer―clever and thoughtful.” (The New York Times Book Review)

“Charles Dickens lurks in the shadows of William Boyd’s gripping new novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, which . . . has a Dickensian cast of characters―predators and prey, tycoons and paupers, charlatans and stooges―orbiting one another in the mean streets of London.” (The Wall Street Journal)

“Boyd is highly adept at doing what novelists do best: exploring the multifarious possibilities implicit in human life.” (The Los Angeles Times)

“William Boyd delivers a multiplot thriller full of twists and turns in Ordinary Thunderstorms.” (Harper’s Bazaar)

“A thrilling story.” (The Daily Beast)

“Impressive. . . . Rich and engaging. . . . Boyd creates the rich spectrum of London with arresting cinematic detail. . . . Boyd gives a harrowing sense of how close and yet how distant the nether life of a large city is.” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)

L'autore:

William Boyd is also the author of A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys War Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunderstorms; and Waiting for Sunrise, among other books. He lives in London.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061876747
• ISBN 13: 9780061876745
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 403