Mockmen
Stephen Wall
- Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Sinclair-Stevenson, 314 pp, £13.95, September 1990, ISBN 1 85619 026 9 - A Bottle in the Smoke by A.N. Wilson
Sinclair-Stevenson, 279 pp, £13.95, September 1990, ISBN 1 85619 019 6 - Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido
Joseph, 318 pp, £13.99, August 1990, ISBN 0 7181 3467 2
In his new novel William Boyd returns to Africa, the scene of his first successes, but not to the west of A Good Man in Africa or the east of An Ice-Cream War. Brazzaville Beach goes for the centre – and appropriately so, since the questions it raises are more searching than before. They’re pursued with a narrative fluency and clarity of design that rewards and deserves attention.
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