The New Confessions: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

"An entertaining and darkly comic novel, a novel given weight and ballast by the pressure of recent history." --The New York Times

"Here is the rarest of books, the sort you want to read again--even before you've finished it the first time. . . . Boyd gives us a magnificent experience." --People

"Boyd has created an important and complex character in a vividly evoked series of settings. . . . He has written a subtle and provocative history of our time." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Entertaining and intellectually engaging." --Time

A once-promising Scottish filmmaker who never lived up to his own expectations looks back over his tumultuous, exciting, yet disappointing life while in self-imposed exile in the Mediterranean. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.