The Blue Afternoon - Hardcover

Boyd, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856193667 ISBN 13: 9781856193665

Verlag: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

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• Verlag: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1856193667
• ISBN 13: 9781856193665
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
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