An Ice-Cream War - Hardcover

Boyd, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688019048 ISBN 13: 9780688019044

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1983

Synopsis

As World War I reaches into the East Africa colonies, two English brothers, Gabriel and Felix, find themselves bound by their attitudes toward the war, their love for one another and for one woman, and their fragmenting empire

About this title

From the Back Cover:

PENGUIN DECADES

50s 60s 70s 80s

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.

The 1980s was the decade when Thatcher reigned and money talked. It was a time of boom and bust, yuppies, New Romantics, riots, miners' strikes, Live Aid and the Falklands, ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism and the triumph of shopping.

When William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War was published in 1982 it introduced a compelling new voice to the reading public. The story follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy.

With a new introduction by Giles Foden

About the Author:

William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952, and brought up there and in Nigeria. He was educated at the universities of Nice, Glasgow and Oxford. He is the author of a number of acclaimed and hugely popular novels and three volumes of short stories, and the recipient of many prizes, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. He has also scripted a number of films and tv series including Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy. He lives in Chelsea, London and in France.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0688019048
• ISBN 13: 9780688019044
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1