Brazzaville Beach
$32.74
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
25 June 2009
Summary
On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps.
But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn’t right. That behind Mallabar, and his obsessive work, there lies another, more sinister truth - one that might also help…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141044194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141044195 |
| Author: | William Boyd |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 25 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 199mm x 131mm |
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‘As intelligent as anything you’re likely to read… slips by like a thriller’ Time Out ‘A brilliant storyteller… a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights’ Financial Times ‘A most extraordinary parable about mankind… quite unlike anything else I have ever read’ Sunday Express ‘Brazzaville Beach exudes confidence; Boyd has grown in authority from book to book. Things are by turn hilarious and edgy but always under control’ Sunday Times
About The Author
William Boyd
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels, including Any Human Heart and Trio, and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south-west France.
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