The Blue Afternoon: William Boyd

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I didn't feel that I was being presented with the psychological conflict which of course in theory Kay would be likely to experience; that just wasn't there in the book and so the changes came over as inconsistency. In 1936 Los angeles, as her long-estranged father tells architect Kay Fischer the story behind her secret parentage, he plunges readers into a tale of grisly murders and an illicit passion that still obsseses him 30 years later. I said that I understood that, on the contrary, Boyd was considered literary, and Clare then read out from the biography in her copy a list of the prestigious literary awards he has won. However, no one really knew what the significance of the blueness was, and I felt that, like the apparently postmodern ending, it was an attempt at a metaphorical mode that sat at odds with the thriller and adventure-story aspects of the novel.Ann wondered if, in view of all the other mysteries, it was another mystery of circumstance (deliberate or otherwise), as she had been left with the impression that in the scene Kay was a child.

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Doug and Trevor would later object that the pair had been driven to desperate measures:in 1903 it would have been quite impossible for an adulterous couple to end up together in the small community of a foreign colony, they would simply have to disappear. Her old partner betrayed her, her life as a divorcée, and her life as an adult that almost reached parenthood but didn't.I felt reluctant to pour cold water on other people's pleasure in a book, but literary honesty compelled me to say that in fact I had found the whole thing preposterous. She lost the baby and was later twice married and widowed, her past buried and never known by either of her two later husbands. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as some of William Boyd's other work, but it certainly made me think and has left a lasting impression. Other reviewers have critised the ease with which Kay Fischer agrees to travel from the USA to manila with Salvador, and fund the trip, in pursuit of his claim to be her father.