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Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel
by Boyd, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061876747
- ISBN 13
- 9780061876745
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Harper, 2010. 1st US . Hardcover. Good/Very Fine. (1st U.S. edition, 1st printing) Large, sturdy book, black covers, 403 pages plus brief biographical note. DJ glossy with sky in shades of purple, a bridge and walkway in foreground on front, spine and back, praise on back from Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic Monthly and others. Book has "X" in ink at pages' bottom edge. Very Fine DJ/Near Very Good book.
Synopsis
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back.The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and anonymous in a huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but down—underground. He decides to join that vast army of the disappeared and the missing who throng London's lowest levels as he tries to figure out what to do with his life and struggles to understand the forces that have made it unravel so spectacularly. Adam's quest will take him all along the river Thames, from affluent Chelsea to the gritty East End, and on the way he will encounter all manner of London's denizens—aristocrats, prostitutes, evangelists, and policewomen—and version after new version of himself.Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd's electric follow-up to his award-winning Restless, is a profound and gripping novel about the fragility of social identity, the corruption at the heart of big business, and the secrets that lie hidden in the filthy underbelly of every city.
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- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55519
- Title
- Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel
- Author
- Boyd, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US
- ISBN 10
- 0061876747
- ISBN 13
- 9780061876745
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Fiction
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