Author: Beryl Bainbridge Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners, War/Military
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ISBNs: 9780786706976 078670697X |
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The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel.
A misadventure in a brothel links the destiny of the enigmatic George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer, to a foundling who becomes his obsessively devoted maid, a wily street boy who takes advantage of his sexual ambiguity, and his alternately philosophical and libidinous brother-in-law in this terse, searing novel that takes them from the comfortable parlors of Victorian Liverpool to the horrific battlefields of the Crimean War.
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