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Master Georgie: A Novel
by Bainbridge, Beryl
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 078670697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780786706976
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1999. BU5 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges and a mark in blue ink on the front endpaper. An intense and disturbing novel about an upper class Victorian gentleman who is a surgeon, amateur photographer, alcoholic, and repressed homosexual who attempts to counter the dissipation of his upper class Liverpool life by going to the Crimean War in 1854. This is a New York Times Notable book and the author has won two Whitbread Prizes and has been nominated five times for the Booker Prize. By the author of "Every Man for Himself," "The Birthday Boys," "The Dressmaker," "Harriet Said," "The Secret Glass," "Sweet William," "Injury Time," "Young Adolf," "Forever England," "Winter Garden," "English Journey," "Watson's Apology," "Somthing Happened Yesterday," and "A Quiet Life." 190p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Master Georgie is a 1998 historical novel by English novelist Beryl Bainbridge. It deals with the British experience of the Crimean War through the adventures of the eponymous central character George Hardy, who volunteers to work on the battlefields. The novel was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and won the WH Smith Literary Award in 1999. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in what was Bainbridge's fifth nomination.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW10951
- Title
- Master Georgie: A Novel
- Author
- Bainbridge, Beryl
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 078670697X
- ISBN 13
- 9780786706976
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Fiction Literary Literature Historical Fiction European History Crimean War Surgeon Amateur Photographer Victorian Age Victorian Liverpool Brothel Battlefield Battlefields
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Historical;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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