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This book sounds like more than the usual story of the second world war . I am eagerly awaiting its release. I tried to get an excerpt from the St. Martin's Press but none was available.
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Small story that leaves and impact on the reader long after you put it down. Makes you think about how memories in your own life may not be quite the way you remember them . Lyrical prose . Resonates.
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William Boyd is a fantastic stoy teller as well as a writers writer. No matter what he undertakes he seems to be able to put it off. Here once again he is able to take on the personna of a women and do it well, this is part espionage , part thriller and untimatley a winner for Boyd. I have read all of his books and was not disappointed by this one. You will be up late at night turning the pages of this literary thriller.
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Hila, May 17, 2007
This book sounds like more than the usual story of the second world war . I am eagerly awaiting its release. I tried to get an excerpt from the St. Martin's Press but none was available.(3 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)
How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira
Hila, April 7, 2007
Small story that leaves and impact on the reader long after you put it down. Makes you think about how memories in your own life may not be quite the way you remember them . Lyrical prose . Resonates.(3 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)
Restless: A Novel by William Boyd
Hila, September 8, 2006
William Boyd is a fantastic stoy teller as well as a writers writer. No matter what he undertakes he seems to be able to put it off. Here once again he is able to take on the personna of a women and do it well, this is part espionage , part thriller and untimatley a winner for Boyd. I have read all of his books and was not disappointed by this one. You will be up late at night turning the pages of this literary thriller.(8 of 13 readers found this comment helpful)