

Waiting for Sunrise
A Novel
Author: William Boyd
Narrator: Robert Ian MacKenzie
Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 04/17/2012
Categories: Fiction
Author: William Boyd
Narrator: Robert Ian MacKenzie
Unabridged: 13 hr 8 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 04/17/2012
Categories: Fiction
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.
In my younger and more vulnerable years, William Boyd gave me some advice I've been I've been turning over in my mind ever since . . . Well, actually, what happened was that I wrote to him after having read An Ice-Cream War and told him how much I enjoyed his writing and that it reminded me of E.M. F......more
Many things had happened on the eve of the First World War: both crucial and mysterious… It is a clear and dazzling summer’s day in Vienna. You are standing in a skewed pentangle of lemony sunshine at the sharp corner of Augustiner Strasse and Augustinerbastei, across from the opera house, indolently......more
Oh dear, all a bit disappointing in the end. One of those books which for most of its length threatens to be clever and brilliant but ultimately fails to deliver the goods. It's a decent enough read while it goes on, with well observed characters and a clear sense of place and time, but its one of t......more
It is no accident that William Boyd names his key character “Lysander” – the name of the iconic lover of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the victim of misapplied magic. Lysander Rief is a British actor of some renown on the world stage of life, as the rumblings of World War I become more......more
I hate to do this. I have long been an admirer of William Boyd's stuff, but this book was one I had to force myself through, often finding myself skimming. The main character, Lysander Rief, struck me as being all over the place - I often found myself drawn up to ponder why on earth would he do that......more