Advantages: brilliantly told Disadvantages: much too long
Adam Kindred, A British climatologist who’s worked in the USA for some years, comes back to his home country for a job interview. Afterwards he has lunch and a man in the restaurant strikes up a conversation with him. When he leaves, Adam notices that he ...
"Restless" is a book set in two time periods - WWII and the period just preceding it and 1970s Britain. The book begins with a first person narrative and as a reader I found it a bit confusing as I wasn't sure who the narrator was. The narrator turns out ...
Advantages: Entertaining, an easy read Disadvantages: A bit too silly in places
Englishman, Henderson Dores, a thirtysomething art expert moves to New York in search of a better life and in the hope that he can overcome the shyness and English reserve that have plagued him throughout his life.
Henderson is sent to assess a collect ...
Advantages: Great plot, easy read Disadvantages: none
Henderson (the main man) has moved to New York, to lose his English reserve and shyness. He works for an auction house, has an ex wife, who he wants to re-marry (she has two new children who are spoilt), a mistress and a mystery assignment to make his an ...
Advantages: Boyd's stlyle. Disadvantages: A confusing, complex, static plot.
I came to this book having read and enjoyed Armadillo a great deal. Perhaps it is this comparison which has made my judgement cluded but I do think that a comparison leaves no doubt as to the better book. I do like Boyd's style he manages to gt inside the ...
