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| Title | : | Brazzaville Beach |
| Author | : | William Boyd |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 1995 by Harper Perennial (first published September 2nd 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Contemporary |
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In the heart of a civil war-torn African nation, primate researcher Hope Clearwater made a shocking discovery about apes and man . . .Young, alone, and far from her family in Britain, Hope Clearwater contemplates the extraordinary events that left her washed up like driftwood on Brazzaville Beach. It is here, on the distant, lonely outskirts of Africa, where she must come to terms with the perplexing and troubling circumstances of her recent past. For Hope is a survivor of the devastating cruelities of apes and humans alike. And to move forward, she must first grasp some hard and elusive truths: about marriage and madness, about the greed and savagery of charlatan science . . . and about what compels seemingly benign creatures to kill for pleasure alone.
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| Original Title: | Brazzaville Beach |
| ISBN: | 0380780496 (ISBN13: 9780380780495) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Hope Clearwater, Eugene Mallabar, John Clearwater, Usman Shoukry |
| Setting: | Republic of the Congo(Central African Republic) |
| Literary Awards: | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1990) |
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Brazzaville Beach - literary novel as absorbing page turner. William Boyd proves himself master of the craft - so much drama, so much suspense.The skinny: twentysomething Hope Clearwater lives on Brazzaville Beach in West Africa, recovering from two major shocks in her life. The first relates to her former husband back in England, an accomplished mathematician by the name of John Clearwater, a man obsessed and driven to formulate groundbreaking equations within the fields of game theory andBrazzaville Beach is a tremendous novel.Right from the beginning it has the feel of something rather unusual and for me there was a definite double-take moment when I realised Id found my place.Its centred around 2 main aspects of Hope Clearwaters life, her time with her husband in the UK and her time without in Africa.The drive of the plot centres around Hopes work observing chimpanzees in the worlds leading scientific project on the subject of the animals. Shes cottoned on to the fact that
Hope Clearwater, the protagonist of William Boyds novel, Brazzaville Beach is a young English ethologist whos come to the Grosso Arvore Research Center in central Africa to make a study of chimpanzees and to forget her broken marriage to a brilliant mathematician back home. In this engrossing book, Boyd very deftly braids three story strands: Hopes present day life on Brazzaville Beach; Hopes former life in England with her husband John; and Hopes recent experiences at Grosso Arvore, and her
Great readBoyd has the ability to tell a story with great sensitivity and intelligence while driving the narrative forward in an exciting way, never patronising his reader. This novel is no exception.
I really enjoy Boyds writing, its so real and full. His characters are well developed, the story lines completely thought out, and in the case of Brazzaville Beach, intensely gripping. A great read.
I couldn't put this book down. I connected on a weird level, maybe because I myself worked with monkeys in Africa, maybe because I see myself turning into Hope Clearwater in a couple of years, with all her scientific-minded cynicism, even though the writing style wasn't my favourite. I didn't mind the constant flip between first and third person narration. I found the part of the story before she goes to Africa (her husband's madness) incredibly boring, but I loved how the story shows that it
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