{"product_id":"the-blue-afternoon-9780679432951","title":"The Blue Afternoon","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Blue Afternoon\u003c\/strong\u003e by William Boyd. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679432951.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of Brazzaville Beach and The Blue Afternoon, a new novel, set in present-day London, which demonstrates the superbly plotted storytelling that has earned William Boyd his reputation as a writer whose \"eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal\" (New York Times Book Review).\nOne cold winters morning, Lorimer Black--\ninsurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise--goes out on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, finds a hanged man and realizes that his life is about to be turned upside down. The elements at play: a beautiful actress glimpsed in a passing taxi . . . an odd new business associate whose hiring, firing and rehiring make little sense . . . a rock musician who is losing his mind--and a web of fraud in which virtually everyone Lorimer Black knows has been caught and in which he finds himself increasingly entangled.\nBoyd at his urbane and mesmerizing best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986312130613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679432957","price":27.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679432951_0d9c124d-597b-47f1-a903-d2e483fd8c3c.jpg?v=1792816284","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-blue-afternoon-9780679432951","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}