Sweet Caress
2015 novel by William Boyd / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay is a novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury in 2015.[1] A fictional autobiography supposedly written by a woman, Amory Clay, born in 1908,[1] it includes extracts from her diary, written on a Hebridean island in 1977, with flashbacks from her career as a photographer in London, Scotland, France, Germany, the United States, Mexico and Vietnam.[1] The book also includes more than 70 photographs, collected by Boyd, most of which are attributed to her.[2]
Author | William Boyd |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publication date | 2015 (hardback) 2016 (paperback) |
Pages | 464 |
ISBN | 9781408867990 |
OCLC | 53163201 |
Preceded by | Solo (2013) |
Followed by | Love is Blind (2018) |
Boyd describes it as a "whole life novel" in that it tells the story of the book's main character "from cradle to grave", a technique he also employed in The New Confessions (1987) and Any Human Heart (2002).[3]
The book is dedicated to Boyd's wife, Susan.