| Description |
190 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"Master Georgie - George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer - stands at the center of this intense, searing, unsettling novel that takes him from a comfortable life in prosperous nineteenth century Liverpool to the battlefield at Inkerman and the horrors of the Crimean War. His story begins and ends in front of a camera, but Master Georgie is more than the subject of a photograph."--BOOK JACKET |
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"Three voices record the series of strange events, bad judgments, good intentions, and ill luck that shape the destiny of Master Georgie. There is Myrtle, a foundling rescued by an accident of fate that secures her an ambiguous position in the Hardy household. There is Pompey Jones, a resourceful street boy, then a fire-eater, and finally a photographer's assistant. There is the pompous, melancholy Dr. Potter who studies the classics and the new science of Darwin no less than he ponders the singular misadventure in a Liverpool brothel that has so ominously linked his own fortune with that of a servant girl, a scamp, and his brother-inlaw, Master Georgie."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally pub. : London : Duckworth, 1998 |
| Subject |
British -- Ukraine -- Crimea -- Fiction.
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Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- Fiction.
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Inkerman, Battle of, Ukraine, 1854 -- Fiction.
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Photographers -- England -- Liverpool -- Fiction.
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Liverpool (England) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
98043228 |
| ISBN |
0786705639 |
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078670697X (paper) |
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