Sweet Caress, by William Boyd
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When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and, from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her own version of events.
Moving freely between London and New York, between photojournalism and fashion photography, and between the men who love her on complicated terms, Amory establishes her reputation as a risk taker and a passionate life traveler. Her hunger for experience draws her to the decadence of Weimar Berlin and the violence of London’s blackshirt riots, to the Rhineland with Allied troops and into the political tangle of war-torn Vietnam. In her ambitious career, the seminal moments of the 20th century will become the unforgettable moments of her own biography, as well.
In Sweet Caress, Amory Clay comes wondrously to life, her vibrant personality enveloping the reader from the start. And, running through the novel, her photographs over the decades allow us to experience this vast story not only with Amory’s voice but with her vision. William Boyd’s Sweet Caress captures an entire lifetime unforgettably within its pages. It captivates.
Sweet Caress, by William Boyd- Amazon Sales Rank: #341005 in Books
- Brand: Boyd, William
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Released on: 2015-09-15
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.46" h x 1.38" w x 6.47" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
Review
“One of the very best prose stylists and storytellers in the English language.” ―The Atlantic
"This gutsy epic is teeming with memorable characters and delicious period details." ―Mail on Sunday
"This tale of a trailblazing female war photographer is clever, inventive and more than the sum of its parts." ―Fiona Wilson, The Times
“Superbly written . . . One of the most smoothly readable novels of the year.” ―The Chicago Tribune on Restless
“Its pleasures are countless . . . Supremely entertaining.” ―The Washington Post Book World on Any Human Heart
“Few contemporary writers are able to evoke the ambiance and drama of our recent past as forcefully as Boyd . . . And [his] characters are as beguiling as his prose.” ―Washington Post Book World on Waiting for Sunrise
“Entertaining and seemingly effortless in their fluency, [Boyd's] novels conceal insights into human behavior that are more intricate than may first appear.” ―The New York Times Book Review, on Waiting for Sunrise
About the Author
William Boyd is the author of thirteen previous novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, winner of the Prix Jean Monnet; Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year; Waiting for Sunrise; and, most recently, Solo: A James Bond Novel. William Boyd lives in London and France.
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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful. Another great novel by William Boyd By schmettajames Once again, William Boyd has written a terrific novel. In Sweet Caress, Boyd returns to the construct of telling the story of a fictional character over the expanse of a lifetime that he used so successfully in True Confession and Any Human Heart. This time around, the main character is a woman with the androgynous name of Amory Clay whose passion for photography will take her across countries and continents, as she becomes one of the first female war photographers. Amory tells her story in the form of a journal that she is writing in 1977 at her home on a remote Scottish island where she lives alone with a black lab.Born in 1908, she is the first of three children of a sporadically successful writer father and a phlegmatic mother from a higher social class. The breakdown of her father, following the First World War, introduces the shadow that will hover over Amory’s life--the terrible impact of war on soldiers and their loved ones. Following school and her own trauma, Amory moves to London to act as a photographic assistant to her uncle, a society photographer.Finding her talents too artistic for this genre, Amory departs for Berlin where she meets other female photographers and photographs the demimonde in the 1920s. When a photography show in London brings a pornography charge, she accepts a job offer in New York in 1932 to work for a photographic magazine (think Life or Look) where she is involved with her American boss and meets a French writer.Amory bounces between England and New York until she runs the London office of the magazine from 1943 until the end of the war. Her actual war photography takes place in the last years of the war in France and again years later in Vietnam.In addition to producing a fast-paced engrossing narrative, Boyd creates interesting characters and an almost tangible atmosphere. This is a great work of fiction. I don’t know how he does it, but Boyd brings the reader into each of the different periods and places with just the right amount of background without overwhelming one with tedious details. Boyd also takes the reader into deeper philosophical realms as Amory and her loved ones are battered literally and figuratively by war after war. Amory is a memorable character whose life is filled with love and loss and I was sad to turn the last page on the story of her life.I greatly appreciate William Boyd’s creation of a wholly fictional character, thereby avoiding the all too pervasive trend of taking the life of a well-know person and fictionalizing it. Such books usually leave a reader unsure of what a character really did and said. Biographers of famous people offer facts and footnotes to tell their stories and are the place to find out about a specific person.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Sweet Caress By Brendan Moody It might be unfair to describe William Boyd's new novel as the grown-up equivalent of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, but that is the comparison that springs to mind. The life story of photographer Amory Clay is accompanied by vintage photographs repurposed as images of characters in the story. This is a gimmick that can be effective if you have the right photographs, but the ones used here, while they match the physical descriptions well enough, don't contribute much of anything to the experience. The most that can be said for them is that they extend the novel's air of realism. Amory Clay's life story is reasonably credible, the kind of third-tier fame you might read about in a Wikipedia article you stumble across while following links, and whole stretches of the book do feel like a memoir. Unfortunately, it's not a very interesting memoir.Part of the problem is that there's very little subtext. Amory is thoughtful enough that she mulls over the meaning of her actions and relationships just as a reader might, and the conclusions are the same ones a reader might draw, which makes reading the novel a fairly superficial experience. The memoir approach also prevents things from being described in novelistic detail, which distances the reader from the action. Even when Amory is caught up in a fascist riot in 1930s London or taking war photographs in 1960s Vietnam, none of the drama and terror of those situations comes through. Her life is also (realistically) episodic and disconnected, which means that there's very little momentum even in the final recollection, which revolves around a character and a relationship that aren't particularly credible and don't have much to do with the rest of the book. A frame narrative involving an elderly Amory's construction of the memoir ought to provide a throughline, but it too is so realistic in its rendering of a quiet retired life as to feel aimless, despite a great personal drama going on in the background.Sweet Caress is one of those books that is more enjoyable to have read than to read. In hindsight one can appreciate the scope of the thing, the appeal of the concept. But actually reading it is a tricker experience. If the conceit appeals to you, it's certainly worth a look. But don't expect the conventional rewards of the novel form; for better or for worse, that's not what's on offer here.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Sweeping, Sensual, Sad, Satisfying By Cheddie “Sweet Caress” skips through many of the major events of the 20th century through the eyes and life of Amory Clay, a photographer and, for the author writing in the first person, memoirist.On the day Amory was born in 1908, her father placed an announcement of the birth of his “son” in the Times.Although the error upset her mother, it was perhaps prescient as Amory was a pioneering woman often ahead of her time, progressing from an “impoverished young woman taking society photographs in the 20’s to make ends meet” to shocking London with a photography exhibition of the sexual decadence of the Weimar Republic to serving as a battle photojournalist in multiple wars.We follow Amory, in her words, photos and adventures, rushing through the century. Her father, badly damaged by his service in WWI, attempts to commit an unspeakable act while she’s a schoolgirl. She apprentices in her craft with her uncle and his assistant, learning about love and ardor. She’s fascinated by the openly lascivious, indecent Berlin between the wars. She moves to New York City, and back in London suffers from an encounter with fascist blackshirts. She finds sexual attraction and love with a newspaper editor, a dashing French diplomat and an English officer she meets covering WWII. She immerses herself in Vietnam and retires to an island off Scotland, where she remarks on her life in a journal penned in 1977.As Amory recounts, “My threescore years and ten have been rich and intensely sad, fascinating, droll, absurd and terrifying – sometimes – and difficult and painful and happy. Complicated, in other words.”In a game with her twin daughters, Amory strives to characterize people with four words – hence my attempt at summing up Sweet Caress in the title of this review.Boyd is a skilled, perceptive, and acclaimed novelist, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. I found his newest protagonist, Amory, and her personal voyage through the decades entirely engrossing and enjoyable. As a delectable bonus, various photographs either "taken" by Amory or illustrating people and animals featured in her story are sprinkled through the chapters. If you enjoy Boyd's "historical fiction," such as Waiting for Sunrise, you'll find Sweet Caress a great read.
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