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Master Georgie

A Novel

by Beryl Bainbridge

ISBN: 078670697X
ISBN-13: 9780786706976
Format: Paperback

Summary

George Hardy is a successful Liverpool surgeon and an amateur photographer. He is also, secretly, an alcoholic and a homosexual. The facts of his life are narrated by the people in his life: Myrtle, an orphan girl who devotes her life to him, even surreptitiously bearing his children (his wife is barren); his brother-in-law Dr. Potter, a geologist and classical scholar; and Pompey Jones, a street-urchin and fire-eater as well as Master Georgie's assistant and lover. The Crimean War is the background to this melancholy novel, which is about the essential aloneness of all human beings. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Da Capo Pr
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 190

Publisher's Notes

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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