Critical Essay by Alan Hollinghurst
Overwriting is the only thing that occasionally spoils A Good Man in Africa, William Boyd's first novel, and one which is in every other respect highly cont...
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Critical Essay by D.a.n. Jones
This engaging novel [A Good Man in Africa] about a damn-fool Englishman doing everything wrong in West Africa (Nigeria, lightly disguised) will give pleasure, both mali...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Motion
"If any one theme can be said to emerge from the stories in On The Yankee Station it is a concern with narrative in its varying guises and modes, approaches and...
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Critical Essay by Paul Ableman
[On The Yankee Station comprises] short stories which are, with one exception, formidably accomplished. Like William Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa, th...
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Critical Essay by Francis King
This second novel by William Boyd [An Ice Cream War] confounds but does not disappoint the expectations raised by his first. Heartlessly farcical, A Good Man in Africa ...
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Critical Essay by Blake Morrison
Inside every comic fat man there's a serious thin man trying to get out. William Boyd's 'A Good Man in Africa' may not have been the novel...
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Critical Essay by T. J. Binyon
"After Evelyn Waugh came Kingsley Amis; after Amis, Tom Sharpe; after Sharpe, William Boyd"; so enthused one reviewer over William Boyd's first nov...
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Critical Essay by Michiko Kakutani
With "A Good Man in Africa," William Boyd made a precocious debut. Though somewhat derivative of Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis, this story of a Briti...
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Critical Essay by Robert Towers
Boyd's first novel, A Good Man in Africa …, won three distinguished British literary prizes: the Whitbread, the Somerset Maugham, and the John Llewellyn ...
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A Canada-set thriller written by an agoraphobic British novelist who had never visited the country was named winner Wednesday of the lucrative Costa Book of the Year Award.Stef Penney won the $49,0...
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An energy magnate's estranged wife was awarded $184 million Monday in what appears to be one of the biggest divorce verdicts in U.S. history.Citing irreconcilible differences, Maya Polsky, a 55-yea...
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Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had exaggerated his war service, telling The Associated Press on We...
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On Jan. 31, 2005, the BBC made it official: On the evening news, the anchor gravely announced the publication of Ian McEwan's new novel, Saturday, and proclaimed the author "the international voice...
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The ranking of the world's richest people as estimated by Forbes magazine. Listings include rank, name, home country or state, age where known, wealth in billions of dollars and source of the money...
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Critical Essay by Alan Hollinghurst
Canada-set thriller wins Costa prize
