by William Boyd · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021244274
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«Les vies multiples d'Amory Clay» is the historical novel by William Boyd, published by Seuil in paperback (528 pages, in French).
The work follows Amory Clay, a young Englishwoman who takes up photography in London after World War I. Amory moves between London high society and interwar Berlin, where she photographs marginal circles that cause scandal. Her career takes her to New York, the Allied landing, Vietnam, and California.
The work, framed in English literature, is part of the Cadre vert collection and dates from 2015.
It is suitable for an audience interested in literary fiction and the life trajectory of a woman photographer.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
