William Boyd’s first novel, A Good Man in Africa, won a Whitbread Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; his second, An Ice-Cream War, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and The Blue Afternoon won the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction. Boyd lives in London.
"This is a wildly funny novel, rich in witty prose and raucous
incidents . . . without qualification, a delight." -The Washington
Post
"Entertaining and successful . . . a champion storyteller. His
prose style is intelligent, vigorous and pleasant." -The New York
Times Book Review
"Comic realism echoing Evelyn Waugh . . . nimbly plotted,
gracefully written . . . Boyd had endowed British fiction with a
welcome depth and liveliness." -New York Newsday
"A gutsy writer . . . William Boyd is good company to keep."
-Time
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