Master Georgie
| Title | Master Georgie
a novel |
|---|---|
| Author | Beryl Bainbridge |
| Publication | Abacus |
| Size | 212p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9780349111698 |
| Topics |
English fiction--Historical English fiction--War stories War--Psychological aspects Europe--History--19th century |
| Notes | 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.[goodreads] |
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