by Beryl Bainbridge · Little, Brown Book Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349111698
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«Master Georgie» is the historical novel by Beryl Bainbridge, published by Little, Brown Book Group in paperback (224 pages, in English).
George Hardy, surgeon and photographer of Victorian Liverpool, sets off for the Crimean War followed by his adopted sister Myrtle, the geologist Potter, and the assistant Pompey Jones. This group drags a shared guilt through a conflict full of death and misery, in a novel that portrays war without complacency.
The novel was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the first edition is from 1998.
For readers of historical and war fiction who appreciate concise narration and a critical view of war.
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. She won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, and was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as a national treasure. In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945".
