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Ordinary Thunderstorms
Contributor(s): Boyd, William (Author)
ISBN: 0061876755     ISBN-13: 9780061876752
Publisher: Harper Perennial
OUR PRICE:   $14.39  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers - Crime
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Series: P.S.
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.31" W x 7.97" (0.70 lbs) 432 pages
 
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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything--home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone--never to get them back.

William Boyd's electrifying follow-up to the Costa Award-winning Restless, Ordinary Thunderstorms is a profound and gripping novel about the fragility of social identity, the corruption at the heart of big business, and the secrets that lie hidden in the seamy underbelly of every city.


Contributor Bio(s): Boyd, William: -

William Boyd is also the author of A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys War Prize and short-listed for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunderstorms; and Waiting for Sunrise, among other books. He lives in London.