The Blue Afternoon : a Novel. [Los Angeles, 1936; Manila, 1902; Tongue; The First Body; The Nipa Barn; Chez Dr. Isidro Cruz; The Aero-movil; Bad Blood; A Diet of Beef Tea; On the Luneta; The House at San Teodoro; Dawn on the Pasig; Bridge at Santa M
by Boyd, William. [design, Cassandra J. Pappas, Chip Kidd, Carol Devine Carson]
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1995., 1995. Fine. 1st American ed. ; 367 pp. ; ISBN: 067977260X, 9780679772606 ; blue cloth with gold lettering, in color decorative dustjacket ; the author's sixth novel ; "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 obssese s him 30 years later" ; FINE/FINE
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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.
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- The Blue Afternoon : a Novel. [Los Angeles, 1936; Manila, 1902; Tongue; The First Body; The Nipa Barn; Chez Dr. Isidro Cruz; The Aero-movil; Bad Blood; A Diet of Beef Tea; On the Luneta; The House at San Teodoro; Dawn on the Pasig; Bridge at Santa M
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- Boyd, William. [design, Cassandra J. Pappas, Chip Kidd, Carol Devine Carson]
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067977260X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679772606
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- New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1995.
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- New York, Ny, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1995
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