The Blue Afternoon - Rilegato

Boyd, William

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679432957 ISBN 13: 9780679432951

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995

Riassunto

In war-torn 1902 Manila, a brilliant young surgeon stands alone against corruption until a grand passion leads him into a sinister world of danger and intrigue, in a story told in flashbacks. By the author of An Ice-Cream War. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

William Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbred Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was short-listed for the Booker; 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.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

laimed author of Brazzaville Beach and The Blue Afternoon, a new novel, set in present-day London, which demonstrates the superbly plotted storytelling that has earned William Boyd his reputation as a writer whose "eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal" (New York Times Book Review).
One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black--
insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise--goes out on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, finds a hanged man and realizes that his life is about to be turned upside down. The elements at play: a beautiful actress glimpsed in a passing taxi . . . an odd new business associate whose hiring, firing  and rehiring make little sense . . . a rock musician who is losing his mind--and a web of fraud in which virtually everyone Lorimer Black knows has been caught and in which he finds himself increasingly entangled.
Boyd at his urbane and mesmerizing best.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679432957
• ISBN 13: 9780679432951
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1