by William Boyd · Bloomsbury Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408867990
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«Sweet Caress» is the historical fiction novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Amory Clay grows up in the early twentieth century and finds in photography a way to define herself. Amory moves between interwar London and Weimar Republic Berlin, between fashion portraits and war photojournalism, all the way to Vietnam, as the great milestones of the century intersect with her life.
The novel was nominated for the Walter Scott Prize in 2016, and its first English edition was published in August 2015.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, especially those interested in female protagonists and the twentieth century.
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.”
