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When
Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her
disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth
of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory
became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and,
from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her
own version of events.
Moving freely between London and New York,
between photojournalism and fashion photography, and between the men
who love her on complicated terms, Amory establishes her reputation as a
risk taker and a passionate life traveler. Her hunger for experience
draws her to the decadence of Weimar Berlin and the violence of London's
blackshirt riots, to the Rhineland with Allied troops and into the
political tangle of war-torn Vietnam. In her ambitious career, the
seminal moments of the 20th century will become the unforgettable
moments of her own biography, as well.
In Sweet Caress,
Amory Clay comes wondrously to life, her vibrant personality enveloping
the reader from the start. And, running through the novel, her
photographs over the decades allow us to experience this vast story not
only with Amory's voice but with her vision. William Boyd's Sweet Caress captures
an entire lifetime unforgettably within its pages. It captivates.
About the Author
William
Boyd is the author of fourteen novels including A Good Man in Africa,
winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An
Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted
for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet
and adapted into a BAFTA-winning Channel 4 drama; Restless, winner of
the Costa Novel of the Year, the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year and a
Richard & Judy selection; the Sunday Times bestseller, Waiting for
Sunrise and, most recently, Solo, a James Bond novel. William Boyd lives
in London and France.