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Item Details
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MASTER GEORGIE
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| By: |
Beryl Bainbridge |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349139032 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349139036 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2013 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Abacus |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Man Booker Best of Beryl 2011
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 1999
Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1999
Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 1999
Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1998 |
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Returnable |
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