{"product_id":"9780061876776","title":"Waiting for Sunrise : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWaiting for Sunrise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): William Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one of our most celebrated and imaginative writers comes a spellbinding novel about deception, betrayal, psychoanalysis, and the mysteries of the human heart. William Boyd follows his critically acclaimed novels \u003cem\u003eA Good Man in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrazzaville Beach\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Thunderstorms \u003c\/em\u003ewith a razor-sharp, incandescent thriller in Waiting for Sunrise. A provocative exploration of the line between consciousness and reality is nested within a tense, rollercoaster plotline following as a young English actor ensnared in a bewildering scandal with an enigmatic woman in early twentieth-century Vienna. Sophisticated, page-turning, and unforgettable, Boyd’s \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Sunrise\u003c\/em\u003e is a triumph of literary fiction from one of the most powerful, thought-provoking writers working today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“It’s ages since I read a novel that offers such breathlessly readable narrative enjoyment, such page-by-page storytelling confidence and solidity. Boyd has a positive genius for pace and description.”\u003cbr\u003e“Always a smooth and expert storyteller, Boyd effortlessly combines historical detail with a sexy, galloping narrative that proves irresistible.”\u003cbr\u003e“Boyd retrofits a genre full of familiar devices and character types with finer textures and deeper psychology than it typically boasts. . . . \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e manages to conjure an atmosphere of genuine disorientation that most spy novels gesture toward and few, if any, attain.”\u003cbr\u003e“Boyd is a born story teller whose clear, taut prose never gets in the way of his characters and their unpredictable fates.”\u003cbr\u003e“Thoroughly entertaining. . . . \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e has the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty.”\u003cbr\u003e“Sex, psychiatry and Vienna on the eve of World War I - those are promising ingredients for a novel. And William Boyd makes the most of them. . . . Boyd’s narrative moves briskly, and his local color is deftly done.”\u003cbr\u003e“As ever with Boyd there is an effortlessness to the prose and a piercing acuity to the period detail and evocation of place, along with thrilling set pieces. . . .[This book] proves that rarest of beasts: a tantalizingly experimental work that is also an immensely satisfying page-turner.”\u003cbr\u003e“This is the sort of novel you finish, then begin again to revisit your favourite bits. . . . More than anything \u003ci\u003eWaiting for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e is a gleeful celebration of storytelling -- sly, clever, frequently hilarious, always involving. . . . This is the literary event of the year.”\u003cbr\u003e“A page-turner. . . . A thinking person’s thriller.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWaiting for Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e retains a consistent intrigue and a splendidly intricate plot. . . . The denouement plays out with characteristic suspense and masterful design. . . . [Boyd has] a truly remarkable imagination.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061876776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41061379965134,"sku":"9780061876776","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061876776.jpg?v=1648348992","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061876776","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}