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The Blue Afternoon
The Blue Afternoon
hardback | English
Published:
13 September, 1993
hardback | English
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13 September, 1993
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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.
Prizes
Winner of Sunday Express Prize 1993.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781856193665 |
| ISBN10 | 1856193667 |
| Number Of Pages | 324 |
| Item Weight | 439 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 28 x 228 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
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Author's Bio
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.