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Brazzaville Beach: A Novel | William Boyd

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“Utterly engaging….A novel of ideas, of big themes….William Boyd is a champion storyteller.” - New York Times Book Review William Boyd’s classic Brazzaville Beach has been called as a “bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense… [that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment.” (Boston Globe). Released to coincide with Boyd’s latest novel, Ordinary Thunderstorms, Brazzaville Beach tells the story of a British primate-researcher who relocates to war-torn Africa in the wake of her husband’s tragic descent into mental illness. Intense, exhilarating, and engrossing, Brazzaville Beach is “rich in action and thought,” and William Boyd “a writer who allows the scope of his work to expand to the point of bursting.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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Marco66

Brazzaville Beach: A Novel | William Boyd

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This book is about how Hope Clearwater confronts the machist egos of the scientific and academic world. She studies the behaviour of chimpanzees somewhere between Angola and Congo, in the middle of a civil war, and has to fight hard to make her point...
This plot is intertwined with flashbacks of an earlier period where she sees her marriage with John go down in a similar battle of egos. Pleasant read, with still one or two head-shaking moments.

Pruzy

Brazzaville Beach: A Novel | William Boyd

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I think Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd is #aneeyorekindofread because it is all at once depressing, bittersweet and romantic. It is about a female ape-researcher named Hope Clearwater who finds herself caught in a civil-war within the Congo. Boyd is a masterful wordsmith and I have enjoyed everything I have read by him. #earlymorningselfie

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GypsyKat Sounds good! 8y

Pruzy @GypsyKat It sure is! 8y

GypsyKat @Pruzy I added it to my ever-growing TBR list on Goodreads. š 8y

Pruzy @GypsyKat You could seriously put any William Boyd book there! 8y

GypsyKat @Pruzy Good to know! š‘¨š¸¼ 8y

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