Losing Nelson - Couverture souple

Unsworth, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140292691 ISBN 13 : 9780140292695

Editeur : Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

A basement in North London holds its own secrets - as the life of Lord Nelson is faithfully re-enacted by his 'dark twin', his 'land shadow'. LOSING NELSON is a brilliant psychological narrative and a compelling analysis of hero worship. 'Few novelists now writing are anything like as reliably enjoyable as Barry Unsworth... there is very little the reviewer need say about his fiction, except READ IT' Spectator

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the basement of a large Victorian house in London, Charles Cleasby painstakingly re-enacts the great sea battles of his hero, Horatio Nelson. He is also writing a faithful biography of the great man, as a true English hero for an age without idols, a 'bright angel' to Charles's dark shadow. But as Charles's visiting typist, Miss Lily, begins to question Nelson's heroism, and as Charles unearths evidence which tarnishes the image of his icon, his own precarious sense of identity is undermined and the battle raging inside him -- between darkness and light, reality and fantasy -- threatens to overwhelm him.

Biographie de l'auteur

Barry Unsworth jointly won the 1992 Booker Prize with his novel SACRED HUNGER. He was also shortlisted for the Booker prize on two further occaisions for PASCALI'S ISLAND and MORALITY PLAY. Originally from a mining village in Durham, he now lives in Italy. Barry Unsworth is currently the Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at John Moore's University in Liverpool.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140292691
• ISBN 13: 9780140292695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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