Buy this book on-line BOYD**, WILLIAM: : BRAZZAVILLE BEACH - a novelLONDON.SINCLAIR-STEVENSON LIMITED,1990. ISBN 1856190269.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour seascape photographic illustrated dw/dj with orange,b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears.The majority of creasing is to top edges and to both foot+head of spine/ backstrip (with reciprocal light bumping) of dw/dj.There are also,traces of inevitable scoring/indents,the rear panel being more affected than the front - but not excessively! Top+fore-edges inevitably but lightly aged/toned and generally clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Generally bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered, publisher's original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked ink pale blue letters to spine/backstrip,a blue+white striped headband,a nd immaculate blue+white publisher's colophon decorated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xiiipp+3-314pp [paginated] includes a prologue, an epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,Socrates quotation,prologue+ epilogue separator pages,and 8pp blanks at rear. Described hard but fairly and honestly - no way as bad as it appears to read!
"I live on Brazzaville Beach.
Brazzaville Beach on the edge of Africa." So Hope Clearwater declares at the beginning of William Boyd's audacious and fascinating new novel.
What is she doing there,a young woman,
alone,far from her family in England? Why has Brazzaville Beach become her home?
The various answers to these questions make up the interlocking strands of Hope Clearwater's compelling story.She is living on Brazzaville Beach because two sets of shocking and extraordinary events have happened to her and she needs time to evaluate their effects,and to attempt to determine whether,in the end,she has behaved correctly.
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