82 B 16 Bainbridge, Beryl (1932-2010). Master Georgie / B. Bainbridge. - London : Abacus, 2013. - xii, 212 с. - Shortlisted for the 1998 booker prize. - ISBN 978-0-349-13903-6 : 300.00 р. Перевод заглавия: Мастер Джорджи Примечания о происхождении: ОКСФОРДСКИЙ РОССИЙСКИЙ ФОНД Перевод заглавия: Мастер Джорджи
Рубрики: Художественная литература--Великобритания, 20 в. Крымская война--в художественной литературе, 1853-1856 Инкерман город--в художественной литературе, 1853-1856 Кл.слова (ненормированные): Проза Великобритании 20 в -- АНГЛИЙСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА 20 В -- КРЫМСКАЯ ВОЙНА 1853-1856 Аннотация: 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. Доп.точки доступа: Benville, John \авт. предисл.\; Бейнбридж, Берил Экземпляры всего: 1 ОИЛ (1) Свободны: ОИЛ (1) |