Brazzaville Beach
by William Boyd
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1856190269
- ISBN 13
- 9781856190268
- Seller
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About This Item
"I live on Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa". So Hope Clearwater declares at the beginning of Wiliam Boyd's audacious and fascinating 1990 novel. What is she doing there, a young woman alone, far from her family in England? Why has Brazzaville Beach become her home?
Synopsis
Brazzaville Beach is a novel by William Boyd, for which he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1990, and the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. The book tells the story of a woman researching chimpanzees, Hope Clearwater, and the circumstances that brought her to Africa.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ivy Court Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79
- Title
- Brazzaville Beach
- Author
- William Boyd
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1856190269
- ISBN 13
- 9781856190268
- Publisher
- Sinclair-Stevenson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 314