Posted on 29/01/05
Boyd watching
There is a generation of British male writers now past 50 who such a short time ago were the bright young things who make Granta best-of lists. There's Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and William Boyd. Of these, the least famous is Boyd. Oh, he's had his share of plaudits, beginning with his Whitbread Award-winning debut novel, A Good Man in Africa (1982), written in a three-month blur after Boyd had somehow left his publisher with the impression that the novel was almost done when it wasn't even fairly begun.
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