The Blue Afternoon
by Boyd, William
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0140238255
- ISBN 13
- 9780140238259
- Seller
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Barberton, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Snowball Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EJ2173
- Title
- The Blue Afternoon
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Edition
- 16th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0140238255
- ISBN 13
- 9780140238259
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- FICTION
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