A reissue of Boyd's wonderful collection of short stories
Featuring sixteen short fiction works, this collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles.
A reissue of Boyd's wonderful collection of short stories
Featuring sixteen short fiction works, this collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles.
Sixteen masterpieces of short fiction from one of today's most original storytellers. Wide-ranging in style and subject matter, the collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles to modern-day Eastbourne. First published in Penguin in 2005 to great acclaim, now reissued with a striking new cover image.
William Boyd was born in Ghana, the son of a Scottish doctor, in 1952, and grew up there and in Nigeria. His first novel A Good Man in Africa was published in 1981, and won both the Whitbread First Novel and Somerset Maugham Prizes. He has since published many acclaimed and successful novels, and four collections of short stories.
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