The Blue Afternoon: Volume 1

"A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times), 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 obsseses him 30 years later. 384 pp. Author tour.

Author: William Boyd
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/14/1997
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.29w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780679772606

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/12/1997 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 12/09/1996

About the Author
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.