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The Blue Afternoon

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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 obsesses him 30 years later. "A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times),

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The Blue Afternoon, William Boyd

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1997
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Title
The Blue Afternoon
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Pages
367
ISBN10
067977260X
ISBN13
9780679772606
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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 obsesses him 30 years later. "A perfect-pitch story of love and redemption" (The New York Times),