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  <title><![CDATA[The Blue Afternoon]]></title>
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  <default-description>Boyd, the author of A Good Man in Africa and Brazzaville Beach, here gives us something entirely new, part suspense, part romance, all grand storytelling.   A young woman, waylaid by an old man who claims to be her father, hears his story of corruption and intrigue as the two of them embark on a remarkable journey.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1993</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[William Boyd]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jul 18 17:10:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 17:12:51 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again I felt as though I was really immersed in a culture and a timeframe while reading this novel.  This time it's in South America at a time when handwashing was unknown to the local doctors doing surgeries.  That and flying byplanes has a very interesting mix in this book.  Starts off in a m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64028377">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 19 10:58:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 19 11:00:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chose this for our book club some years ago and loved it so much that I now make note when I see a new Boyd title. Just received a review copy of Ordinary Thunderstorms by boyd to be published in February 2010.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 06 13:34:34 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 06 13:35:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m a Boyd fan, love his writing, and his other novels I’ve read were top 5.  But this book was different.  To be accurate, it’s not a complete mystery but a novel with a mystery in it, even a murder.  It might be a novel of a great love even, or perhaps a historical tale set in the Philippine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37055672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41570873">
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 23:19:52 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 23:21:23 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[How can I not empathize, the setting being in Manila?  Funnily, the plot is also telenovelaish. ]]></body>
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    <review id="74100894">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 10 14:37:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 10 14:38:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good but a little strange. Didn't end in the way I would have liked but very good overall.]]></body>
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    <review id="49992204">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 21 16:43:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 07 09:29:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[another beautifullly written book w/good plot twist and great characters. a little too much surgical detail for squeamish-me...<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="57858">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 19 12:55:21 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[William Boyd manages again to fully explore another time and place in detail and depth.  While I enjoyed  <strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77837.A_Good_Man_in_Africa_A_Novel" title="A Good Man in Africa  A Novel by William Boyd">A Good Man in Africa</a><strong>, I preferred this book for the mystery and love story and its heart.  Once again, the narrator is an outsider looking in at the culture and its ironies and flaws.  Highly re...</strong></strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57858">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11083307">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 27 08:55:26 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 27 08:59:33 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Description: &quot;..part suspense, part romance, all good storytelling. ...told in flashback. Opens in Hollywood 1930&quot;s where narrator, ayoung female architect is approached by an elderly man who claims to be her father. She joins him on a trip to Lisbon to search for the great lost love of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11083307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67591111">
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 16 06:50:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 07 08:30:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nicht fertig gelesen. Die Story wirkt zu konstruiert und man muss zu lange warten, bis man endlich was erfährt - ich habe mich hingehalten gefühlt.]]></body>
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    <review id="32312060">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 07 22:36:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 07 22:39:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[still waiting for the option for this book to grow serious legs...]]></body>
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    <review id="16188547">
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 23 13:40:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three reads and it continues to gnaw at me.]]></body>
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    <review id="55057890">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 22:15:51 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is probably a 3.5 star book but the half star isn't an option.  good writing.  i love reading about historical events through fiction.  interesting conventions to move the plot along.  enjoyed it but don't think it will stick with me for long.  if you're a voracious reader, this is speedy and e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55057890">more...</a>]]></body>
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