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Title: The Blue Afternoon: A Novel (Blue Afternoon) by William Boyd ISBN: 0-679-77260-X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.13 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Suspense, Romance, someone make this a movie!!
Comment: William Boyd, the author of "Brazzaville Beach" and "A Good Man in Africa", has written a tale of intrigue that takes us from the 1930s in Los Angeles to the late 1890s in the Philippines on a wild chase for the truth about a certain doctor's past. The tale opens with the confrontation between a budding female architect (most unlikely in 1936, but if you can get by that, the rest is easy) and an elderly man (the doctor) who claims to be her father. The story revolves around the doctor's need to eventually get to Lisbon in his efforts to locate someone.... during the trip to Portugal, he weaves the story for the architect and for us. The details of the grizzly war in the Philippines (and the behavior of the Americans there), the languid, filthy streets and neighborhoods of Manila, the medieval medical practices, and the complex world and class systems of Philippine society during the turn of the century all work together to make this a fantastic read. With little effort, this might even be a good movie!
Rating: 5
Summary: Love story from a man's angle, with plot aplenty
Comment: As a woman, if you're ever so slightly bored of modern women writers, this is for you. William Boyd's achingly beautiful writing weaves an engrossing plot involving, but not limited to, a love story told from the man's point of view. And it's refreshing to read of a man's utter devotion, told ungushingly but with such feeling and realism. In addition to the love, there is the story set mostly in the Far East, a little murder, infidelity, characters which jump out at you but allow you to fill in the gaps.... and a prologue that will have you desperate to drop the kids off at school and leave them there all week while you finish. This is a book for everyone, and the only criticism is that you won't want to read anything else once you're done!
Rating: 2
Summary: boyd at his least interesting
Comment: this, along with Stars and Bars, is Boyd's most tossed-off novel--but it's still Wm Boyd, the best British novelist living. the characters here are pallid and limp, the plot plodding, the "reversals" less than interesting. much much better to pick up The New Confessions or Brazzaville Beach--two of the most riveting novels written this century.
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Title: Any Human Heart by William Boyd ISBN: 1400031001 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd ISBN: 0380780496 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The New Confessions by William Boyd ISBN: 0375705031 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd ISBN: 1400030021 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Armadillo by William Boyd ISBN: 0375702164 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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