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Sweet Caress (2015)

de William Boyd

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:Born into Edwardian England, Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, who, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future.A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, photographing socialites for the magazine Beau Monde. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love, and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late '20s, to New York of the '30s, to the blackshirt riots in London, and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands, and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons.
In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, illustrated with "found" period photographs, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of some of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman, Amory Clay. It is his greatest achievement to date.
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William Boyd is one of my favourite writers so I'm not totally objective when I say this is one of the best books of this century, but I can assure you: it is! It was so brilliantly written, this novel about a photographer and her work, that I even looked her up inWikipedia, and only then found out she was fiction. She really was a fascinating woman and this is truly a book about living life to the fullest. ( )
  Marjoos | Nov 16, 2022 |
Tiene una pequeña parte en el medio de la lectura que aburre un poco. Todo lo demás una maravilla de Boyd. Una historia ligera y rápida que deja entrever todos los acontecimientos importantes del Siglo XX, aunque no se pare en ellos, salvo un poco en la Guerra de Vietnam. Una historia entretenida de una vida bien vivida en la que hay de todo. Y un final precioso. Buscaré más cosas de William Boyd. Durante todo el libro me convenció de que estaba contándome una biografía real y no una ficción. Lo que se espera de la literatura, al menos yo, siempre. ( )
  Orellana_Souto | Jul 27, 2021 |
Perhaps the writer's work on the James Bond novel and his screen-writing help him produce such a well-paced and readable book as this. Tight editing makes this story flow effortlessly. The division of the novel into eight books and coda helps create an episodic series of events in Amory Clay's life as a photographer, adventurer etc. The episodes (or books) are often connected by fortuitous circumstances which allow our subject to witness some of the Twentieth Century's crises, but this is incidental to the story at hand.
Good stuff.
  ivanfranko | Feb 14, 2021 |
A walk through the colourful life of Amory Clay. She is a professional photographer and an early assignment has her investigating the decadent, colourful, sexually liberated Berlin clubs of the early 1930s. There are passing glimpses of a future facist Germany that will soon spread its evil tentacles over an unsuspecting and sleepy world.
Back in London hosting an exhibition of her own work Amory is intrigued by the rise of Oswald Mosley and his facist followers identified and condemned by their famous black shirts. An unexpected and violent event occurs that changes Amory’s direction and focus.Through a number of casual sexual encounters she marries a soldier of the 2ndWW, a man deeply affected by his experiences resulting in an irreversible and permanent blackness with an inevitable sad conclusion. For a limited time she resides in New York until the disastrous American involvement in Vietnam demands her photographic skills.
William Boyd has a wonderful storytelling technique. He takes a life, an interesting life, and highlights the pivotal moments in that life, decisions taken, choices made, and consequences that followed. We are entertained, we are educated, we are party to the changing face of Germany, the slaughter of WW2 and the catastrophic decisions and campaigns that were the killing fields of Vietnam. ( )
  runner56 | Oct 17, 2020 |
A fictional autobiography of a fictional photographer who wrote her story in 1977 at 69 years old while living on a Hebridean island. Her career covered many significant happenings of the 20th century that Boyd perfectly merges with Amory's personal story. His novel is a tempestuous, sprawling story ranging from the scintillating 1920s Weimar culture of Berlin (the resulting photos were seized by police at an exhibition in London), to a brutal attack during a demonstration by Oswald Mosley's fascists. After a time in New York she returned to England to became a war photographer for the D-Day landings, and later in Vietnam. Boyd created an intense, complex, yet ultimately shallow character in a novel that despite the adventurous era manages to be bland and a shade too long. ( )
  VivienneR | Apr 29, 2020 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:Born into Edwardian England, Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, who, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future.A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, photographing socialites for the magazine Beau Monde. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love, and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late '20s, to New York of the '30s, to the blackshirt riots in London, and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands, and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons.
In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, illustrated with "found" period photographs, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of some of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman, Amory Clay. It is his greatest achievement to date.

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