The Blue Afternoon
The Blue Afternoon
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From the torpid heat and routine brutality of the Philippines at the turn of the century, to Los Angeles and Lisbon in the 1930s, this novel is a story of a love affair that refused to accept the inevitable. The author also wrote "Brazzaville Beach", "An Ice-Cream War" and "A Good Man in Africa".
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The Blue Afternoon by William Boyd
His name is Salvador Carriscant and thus begins Kay Fischer's journey into the past of this beguiling and seductive older man who claims to be her father. A young architect, struggling to establish her career in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Kay is initially resistant and skeptical. But, increasingly, she finds herself trammeled up in his concerns and is enlisted by him in a bizarre quest that has its origins in the Philippines, in Manila, in 1902. As he begins slyly to confide in her she comes to learn about the extraordinary central event in Carriscant's life, a love affair of uncommon intensity, and, at the same time, a baffling and compelling mystery of murder and mutilation, rivalry and betrayal, surgery, flying machines and crystallized violets.
William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana in 1952. He is the author of five other novels and a collection of short stories that have been published around the world in over two dozen languages. In addition, eight of his screenplays have been filmed, the most recent of which is A Good Man in Africa, based on his first novel. He is married and lives in London.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781856193665 |
| ISBN 10 | 1856193667 |
| Title | The Blue Afternoon |
| Author | William Boyd |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1993-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
| Prizes | Winner of Sunday Express Prize 1993 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |