Synopses & Reviews
“Utterly engaging….A novel of ideas, of big themes….William Boyd is a champion storyteller.” -
New York Times Book Review William Boyds classic Brazzaville Beach has been called as a “bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense… [that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment.” (Boston Globe). Released to coincide with Boyds latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Brazzaville Beach tells the story of a British primate-researcher who relocates to war-torn Africa in the wake of her husbands tragic descent into mental illness. Intense, exhilarating, and engrossing, Brazzaville Beach is “rich in action and thought,” and William Boyd “a writer who allows the scope of his work to expand to the point of bursting.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
Review
“Utterly engaging. . . . A novel of ideas, of big themes. . . . William Boyd is a champion storyteller.” The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
In the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man. . . .
Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on Brazzaville Beach. It is here, on the distant, lonely outskirts of Africa, where she must come to terms with the perplexing and troubling circumstances of her recent past. For Hope is a survivor of the devastating cruelties of apes and humans alike. And to move forward, she must first grasp some hard and elusive truths: about marriage and madness, about the greed and savagery of charlatan science, and about what compels seemingly benign creatures to kill for pleasure alone.
Synopsis
Utterly engaging .A novel of ideas, of big themes .William Boyd is a champion storyteller. - New York Times Book Review
William Boyd s classic Brazzaville Beach has been called as a bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment. (Boston Globe). Released to coincide with Boyd s latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Brazzaville Beach tells the story of a British primate-researcher who relocates to war-torn Africa in the wake of her husband s tragic descent into mental illness. Intense, exhilarating, and engrossing, Brazzaville Beach is rich in action and thought, and William Boyd a writer who allows the scope of his work to expand to the point of bursting. (Los Angeles Times Book Review)"
About the Author
WILLIAM BOYD is the author of 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 Man Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; RestlessM/em>, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and Ordinary Thunderstorms, among other books. He lives in London, England. Visit him online at <>williamboyd.co.uk.