William Boyd

Armadillo

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Produktbeschreibung

From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London. To his colleagues, Lorimer Black, the handsome, mild-mannered insurance adjuster rising through the ranks of his London firm, is known as the guy who has it all: the sleek suits, the enviable status. But when Lorimer arrives at a routine business appointment and finds his client hanging from a water pipe, his life spirals out of control. His company car is blowtorched after he investigates a fire at a luxury hotel. He becomes the fall guy of a new colleague who puts the company in the red and the victim of a vicious attack by the possessive husband of a mysterious actress. As Lorimer becomes increasingly entangled in an apparent conspiracy that involves everyone he knows, his own past comes to light. A brilliant satirical noir, Armadillo confirms Boyd's place as England's most versatile, sublime novelist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 131mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780375702167
• ISBN-10: 0375702164
• Artikelnr.: 21985140

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner Andrew Motion Observer