by William Boyd · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408806067
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«Ordinary Thunderstorms» is the suspense novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (403 pages, in English).
Adam Kindred, a young climatologist, loses his family, his money and his identity after a chance encounter in a London restaurant. Wanted by the police and pursued by a hitman, he immerses himself in the subterranean London of the disappeared and traverses the city from Chelsea to the East End, confronting different versions of himself.
William Boyd is also the author of Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year. This 2010 edition corresponds to the Export and UK open market variant.
For readers of thrillers and contemporary fiction, as well as for reading clubs interested in British narrative.
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.”
