Master Georgie
Author(s): Beryl Bainbridge
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.
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Sphere
- : 0.185
- : 01 April 0000
- : 197mm X 126mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Beryl Bainbridge
- : New edition
- : 224
More About The Product
*A brilliant novel about one family's experiences in the Crimean war