Master Georgie

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1998

Beryl Bainbridge (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1999
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-11169-8 (ISBN)

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A brilliant novel about one family's experiences in the Crimean war

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1998
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZE
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE WH SMITH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.

Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.

Beryl Bainbridge wrote seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.1999
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 138 mm
Gewicht	191 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte	Englisch; Historische Romane/Erzählungen • Krimkrieg (1853-1856); Romane/Erzähl.
ISBN-10	0-349-11169-3 / 0349111693
ISBN-13	978-0-349-11169-8 / 9780349111698
Zustand	Neuware