An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop. As the conflict sweeps up natives and ...
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An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd's sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?' 'I think it would hurt a great deal.' Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop. As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.
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Good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Minor wear on the covers, corners, and the edges. Like shelf wear. May contain some writing and or highlighting within. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. 408 p. : map; 24 cm. Includes Maps. Hardcover Cloth 408 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition Third printing 1983 with corresponding number line. Nice grey boards with purple buckram spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear-a few tears, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. As World War I reaches into the East Africa colonies, two English brothers, Gabriel and Felix, find themselves bound by their attitudes toward the war, their love for one another and for one woman, and their fragmenting empire. Of Scottish descent, Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana on 7th March, 1952 and spent much of his early life there and in Nigeria where his mother was a teacher and his father, a doctor. Boyd was selected in 1983 as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' in a promotion run by Granta magazine and the Book Marketing Council. He also became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in the same year, and is also an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He has been presented with honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of St. Andrews, Stirling and Glasgow. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Book Bright, crisp, unclipped dust jacket light wrinkle inside front flap, in Bro Dart cover. Tight binding, solid boards with sharp corners, light foxing top text block, the numbers 129 in ink on front end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition, 1st printing of Boyd's third book.
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket: a pristine copy. Lge. 8vo 9 1/2"x 6" brown cloth w/ green paper boards; spine gilt; 408 pgs; illus dust jacket ($17.95) w/ author photo by Jerry Bauer on rear flap; Boyd's second novel. quotes by Michiko Kakutani, Jonathan Yardley, Malcolm Boyd, Michele Ross, Francies Taliaferro, P. Albert Duhamel and Richard Dyer on back cover. jacket design by Fred Marcellino.