Waiting for Sunrise (P.S.) - Softcover

Boyd, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061876771 ISBN 13: 9780061876776

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

From one of our most celebrated and imaginative writers comes a spellbinding novel about deception, betrayal, psychoanalysis, and the mysteries of the human heart. William Boyd follows his critically acclaimed novels A Good Man in Africa, Brazzaville Beach, and Ordinary Thunderstorms with a razor-sharp, incandescent thriller in Waiting for Sunrise. A provocative exploration of the line between consciousness and reality is nested within a tense, rollercoaster plotline following as a young English actor ensnared in a bewildering scandal with an enigmatic woman in early twentieth-century Vienna. Sophisticated, page-turning, and unforgettable, Boyd's Waiting for Sunrise is a triumph of literary fiction from one of the most powerful, thought-provoking writers working today.

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Review:

"Thoroughly entertaining. . . . "Waiting for Sunrise" has the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty."--"The New Yorker"

""Waiting for Sunrise" retains a consistent intrigue and a splendidly intricate plot. . . . The denouement plays out with characteristic suspense and masterful design. . . . [Boyd has] a truly remarkable imagination."--"The Huffington Post"

""Waiting for Sunrise" does the neat trick of evolving from a historical romance into a seat-of-the-pants spy thriller. . . . This is Boyd's stage, on which he is a virtuoso."--"The San Antonio Express-News"

Always a smooth and expert storyteller, Boyd effortlessly combines historical detail with a sexy, galloping narrative that proves irresistible. --"People" (4 stars)"

Boyd retrofits a genre full of familiar devices and character types with finer textures and deeper psychology than it typically boasts. . . . "Waiting for Sunrise" manages to conjure an atmosphere of genuine disorientation that most spy novels gesture toward and few, if any, attain. --Laura Miller, "Salon""

Boyd is a born story teller whose clear, taut prose never gets in the way of his characters and their unpredictable fates. --"The Wall Street Journal""

Sex, psychiatry and Vienna on the eve of World War I - those are promising ingredients for a novel. And William Boyd makes the most of them. . . . Boyd s narrative moves briskly, and his local color is deftly done. --"The Seattle Times""

"Waiting for Sunrise" retains a consistent intrigue and a splendidly intricate plot. . . . The denouement plays out with characteristic suspense and masterful design. . . . [Boyd has] a truly remarkable imagination. --"The Huffington Post""

Superb. . . . To read a William Boyd novel is to open a bottle of wine, light a fire, sit back in your favourite armchair and trust that the master practitioner will take you on an intriguing and unpredictable journey. He s done it again. --"The Spectator" (UK)"

A tantalizing, fast-paced spy novel. . . . As seductive as it is, "Waiting for Sunrise" is no bodice-ripper. It s a brainteaser, charged with uncertainty and danger, electric with restraint. --"The New York Times Book Review""

Book Description:

A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061876771
• ISBN 13: 9780061876776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384