Anglický jazyk

Master Georgie

Vydavateľstvo: Abacus
Rok vydania: 2013
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780349139036

The book that only she could have written: This brilliant novel about one family\'s experiences in the Crimean war is now being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus... Viac o knihe

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O knihe

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.