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008			102302s2009 enk 000 1 eng
010			_a2009529992
020			_a9781408802397
050	0	0	_aPR6052.O9192 _bO73 2009
082	0	0	_aFIC BOY
100	1		_aBoyd, William _d, 1952-
245	1	0	_aOrdinary thunderstorms _c/ William Boyd
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York _b: Bloomsbury _c, 2009.
300			_a403 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aOne May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything-home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone-never to get them back.The police are searching for him. There is a reward for his capture. A hired killer is stalking him. He is alone and anonymous in a huge, pitiless modern city. Adam has nowhere to go but down-underground. He decides to join that vast army of the disappeared and the missing who throng London's lowest levels as he tries to figure out what to do with his life and struggles to understand the forces that have made it unravel so spectacularly. Adam's quest will take him all along the river Thames, from affluent Chelsea to the gritty East End, and on the way he will encounter all manner of London's denizens-aristocrats, prostitutes, evangelists, and policewomen-and version after new version of himself. Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd's electric follow-up to his award-winning Restless, is a profound and gripping novel about the fragility of social identity, the corruption at the heart of big business, and the secrets that lie hidden in the filthy underbelly of every city.
650		0	_aFate and fatalism _v--Fiction
650		0	_aMarginality, Social _v--Fiction
650			_aLondon (England) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aSuspense fiction
942			_cMO
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