Bamboo: Essays and Criticism William Boyd,
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN: 1596914416
DDC: 828.91408
Edition: Paperback; 2007-11-13
Summary:
On the heels of Boyd’s Costa (formerly Whitbread) Award winner,
Restless, an erudite and entertaining collection of essays and
opinions from one of our generation’s most talented writers. “Plant
one bamboo shoot—cut bamboo for the rest of your life.” William
Boyd’s prolific, fruitful career is a testament to this old Chinese
saying. Boyd penned his first book review in 1978—the proverbial
bamboo shoot—and we’ve been reaping the rewards ever since. Beginning
with the Whitbread Award–winning A Good Man in Africa, William Boyd
has written consistently artful, intelligent fiction and firmly
established himself as an international man of letters. He has done
nearly thirty years of research and writing for projects as diverse
as a novel about an ecologist studying chimpanzees (Brazzaville
Beach), an adapted screenplay about the emotional lives of soldiers
(The Trench, which he also directed), and a fictional biography of an
American painter (Nat Tate). All the while, Boyd has been accruing
facts and wisdom—and publishing it in the form of articles, essays,
and reviews.Now available for the first time in the United States,
Bamboo gathers together Boyd’s writing on literature, art, the movie
business, television, people he has met, places he has visited and
autobiographical reflections on his African childhood, his years at
boarding school, and the profession of novelist. From Pablo Picasso
to the Cannes Film Festival, from Charles Dickens to Catherine
Deneuve, from mini-cabs to Cecil Rhodes, this collection is a
fascinating and surprisingly revealing companion to the work of one
of Britain's leading novelists.
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