Master Georgie
shortlisted for the booker prize, 1998
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 June 1999
Summary
A Surgeon’s Shadow: Love, War, and Photography in the Crimea
When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - departs Victorian Liverpool for the vibrant, yet volatile, Bosphorus, his mission to serve in the Crimea draws an unlikely entourage. His devoted adoptive sister, Myrtle; a disillusioned geologist, Dr. Potter; and Pompey Jones, his fiery assistant, are all compelled by a shared, unspoken guilt to follow him into the heart of a rising tide of death and disease.<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349111698 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349111693 |
| Author: | Beryl Bainbridge |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 1999 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 138mm x 216mm x 15mm |
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‘It is hard to think of anyone now writing who understands the human heart as Beryl Bainbridge does’ THE TIMES ‘Another masterly exploration by an author at the peak of her form …She was always good at funny dialogue and acute observation of the oddities of human behaviour, but her recent historical explorations have given full reign to her startling powers of description … Bainbridge has never written better’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
About The Author
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge is one of the greatest living English novelists - author of 16 novels, 2 travel books and 5 plays for stage and television. Her last novel, EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF was awarded the Whitbread Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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