The Blue Afternoon. - Hardcover

Boyd, William.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856193667 ISBN 13: 9781856193665

Publisher: SINCLAIR-STEVENSON. LONDON 1993, 1993

Synopsis

Boyd, the author of A Good Man in Africa and Brazzaville Beach, here gives us something entirely new, part suspense, part romance, all grand storytelling. A young woman, waylaid by an old man who claims to be her father, hears his story of corruption and intrigue as the two of them embark on a remarkable journey.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

From the acclaimed 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: SINCLAIR-STEVENSON. LONDON 1993
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856193667
• ISBN 13: 9781856193665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324