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Armadillo

By William Boyd

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| eBook | 9780141925493

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Book Description

One winter morning Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period for Lorimer as he realizes that he's being set up at work and cast adrift outside the office. This is a very funny novel with its dark side Continue

Critics

Armadillo By William Boyd

The right to bear armadillosWhat is a, if not the, hallmark of a mystery novel? I've said it before, and I'll say it again: as Raymond Chandler is my witness, it's muddle. Sometimes, as with Chandler, it's nearly impenetrable muddle, and sometimes, a ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

Onomastics

‘Names are important,’ someone says in Armadillo, William Boyd’s seventh novel. The line crops up a few times elsewhere in Boyd’s books, as do characters who show some sensitivity to the tricky business of naming. ‘What if we hadn’t had such great na ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010