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Any Human Heartby William BoydISBN 0141009284 (0-14-100928-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Armadilloby William BoydISBN 014027247X (0-14-027247-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armadillo'Book summary:Lorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but Armadillo's peculiar protagonist is the star insurance adjuster of London's Fortress Sure PLC, unaffectionately known as the Fort. At the very start of William Boyd's noir-ish seventh novel, however, things take a decided swerve for the worse. On a bleak January morning one of his cases has apparently chosen to kill himself rather than talk: "Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling."
Soon our hero, who himself has a lot to hide, finds himself threatened by a dodgy type whose loss he has adjusted way down and embroiled with the beautiful married actress Flavia Malinverno. "People who've lost something, they call on you to adjust it, make the loss less hard to bear? As if their lives are broken in some way and they call on you to fix it," Flavia dippily wonders. Lorimer also has his car torched and instantly goes from an object of affection to one of deep suspicion at the Fort. Then there is another case, the small matter of the rock star who may or may not be faking the Devil he says is sitting on his left shoulder.
Needless to say, Lorimer is "becoming fed up with this role of fall guy for other people's woes." Boyd adds a deep layer of psychological heft and a lighter level of humor to this thinking-person's thriller by exploring Lorimer's manifold personal and social fears. This is a man who desperately collects ancient helmets even though he knows they offer only "the illusion of protection." Another of Armadillo's many pleasures: its dose of delicious argot. Should Lorimer "oil" the apparent perpetrator of the Fedora Palace arson before he's oiled himself? Or perhaps he just needs to "put the frighteners" on him. Boyd definitely puts the frighteners on his readers more than once in this cinematically seedy and dazzling literary display. --Kerry Fried [via]
Blue Afternoonby William BoydISBN 0140238255 (0-14-023825-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Brazzaville Beachby William BoydISBN 014014658X (0-14-014658-X)
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The Destiny of Nathalie Xby William BoydISBN 0140252207 (0-14-025220-7)
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Dream Loverby William BoydISBN 0140252959 (0-14-025295-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Good Man in Africaby William BoydISBN 0140058877 (0-14-005887-7)
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An Ice-Cream War: A Tale of the Empireby William BoydISBN 0140065717 (0-14-006571-7)
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A Month and a Day: A Detention Diaryby William Boyd , Ken Saro-WiwaISBN 0140259147 (0-14-025914-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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New Confessionsby William BoydISBN 014012277X (0-14-012277-X)
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On the Yankee Stationby William BoydISBN 0140093478 (0-14-009347-8)
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Stars and Barsby William BoydISBN 014008889X (0-14-008889-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stars and Bars'Book summary:Sharply observed and brilliantly plotted, Stars and Bars is an uproarious portrait of culture clash deep in the heart of the American South, by one of contemporary literatures most imaginative novelists.
A recent transfer to Manhattan has inspired art assessor Henderson Dores to shed his British reserve and aspire to the impulsive and breezy nature of Americans. But when Loomis Gage, an eccentric millionaire, invites him to appraise his small collection of Impressionist paintings, Dores's plans quite literally go south. Stranded at a remote mansion in the Georgia countryside, Dores is received by the bizarre Gage family with Anglophobic slurs, nausea-inducing food, ludicrous death threats, and a menacing face off with competing art dealers. By the time he manages to sneak back to New York Citysporting only a cardboard boxHenderson Dores realizes he is fast on the way to becoming a naturalized citizen.
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