Brazzaville Beach
by:
William Boyd (author)
Praised as "brilliant" and "stunningly magical" by the Washington Post Book World, Boyd's award-winning novel is a brutal exploration of the sexual politics of humans and chimpanzees, set in present-day Africa. A survivor of the wars between apes and men, primate researcher Hope Clearwater...
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Praised as "brilliant" and "stunningly magical" by the Washington Post Book World, Boyd's award-winning novel is a brutal exploration of the sexual politics of humans and chimpanzees, set in present-day Africa. A survivor of the wars between apes and men, primate researcher Hope Clearwater contemplates the events that led to the discovery that even seemingly benign creatures can kill for the sheer pleasure of it.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780380780495 (0380780496)
Publish date: August 1st 1995
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Contemporary
Here's where I'll probably stop, page 244.Finding this book was a marvelous and strange coincidence. It was one of two or three English books from a lonely, hodgepodge street seller at a quite remote metro stop in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's lucky and strange that I found this fictional reminder that alle...
A good, solid 3 1/2 stars. I especially enjoyed the structure of the narrative. 2 parts in the past, one part in the present. All intertwined, all connected. Hope, stands tall and strong throughout the novel. She knows she is adrift personally and professionally and doesn't try to lie to herself abo...
Hope Clearwater reflects on her life, while she studies wild chimpanzees in Africa. Award-winning novel read by Fiona Shaw.
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