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Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winningSacred Hungerand the bestsellingMorality Play, has long established his genius for both historical narrative and for sharply observed, fantastically odd characters and stories. InLosing Nelson, Unsworth's most brilliantly imagined novel yet and a nominee for the Booker Prize, he has enlisted all these proven talents in a way unprecedented in his earlier work. Every day, Charles Cleasby relives the events of Lord Horatio Nelson's life. He holds no regard for year-by-year chronology, so his life is a bustle of anniversaries: a political confrontation in 1797, for instance, might be followed immediately by a climactic sea battle in 1805. He reenacts the battles in his basement on a huge blue-glass table, moving the perfectly rendered ships that represent Nelson's Royal Navy and its enemies, thus reliving Nelson's triumphs. Losing Nelsonis a novel of obsession, the story of a man unable to see himself separately from the hero he mistakenly idolizes. Cleasby is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson--Britain's greatest admiral, who finally defeated Napoleon, and lost his own life, in the Battle of Trafalgar--is the perfect hero, but in his research he has come upon an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson's military career that simply stumps all attempts at glorification. Admiral Nelson, faults and all, is a hero to many, but to Cleasby he is something more. Cleasby has come to think of himself as Nelson's dark side, the fallible human flip-side of the perfect man. And so Nelson's transgression represents more than just a chink in his thesis. Further, Cleasby's new assistant, Miss Lily of Avon Secretarial Services, insists on maintaining a running criticism of Nelson as she takes dictation, not to mention the objections she voices to the isolated, sheltered way Cleasby lives his life. Something has to give, and give it does--in the most astonishing and entertaining of ways.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385486529
ISBN-13
9780385486521
eBay Product ID (ePID)
275132

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Book Title
Losing Nelson
Author
Barry Unsworth
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
21.9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pr6071.N8l67 1999
Reviews
"Losing Nelsonmay be Barry Unsworth's best book to date; it is accomplished, effective, exciting and intelligent...Information is cunningly deployed, the pace perfectly controlled, the mood of zealous desperation, of exhilarated misery, is heightened from page to page." --The Sunday Times(London) Sacred Hunger, winner of the Booker Prize: "Wonderful and breathtaking...It is a book of grace and meditative elegance, and of great moral seriousness." --The New York Times Book Review "Utterly magnificent...By its last page you will be weeping." --The Washington Post Morality Play, a national bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and aNew York TimesNotable Book: "A book of subtlety, compassion, and skill, and it confirms Barry Unsworth's position as a master craftsman of contemporary British fiction." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "A bravura performance...A thought-provoking comedy on the eternal sameness of disaster and the recurrent uses we put it to in art." --The New York Times Book Review After Hannibal: "From its start as a deceptively simple, possibly amusing tale of a neighborhood squabble about a damaged wall,After Hannibalbuilds into a brilliant novel, exquisitely precise in its analysis of evil twisting its way through ordinary lives." --Boston Globe "A skillfully composed and beautifully written novel." --Times Literary Supplement
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-028757
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Dewey Edition
21

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