The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1

by William Boyd

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679772606
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/14/1997
Series:	Vintage International
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

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.