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Losing Nelson

Paperback • 2000 • English • 1. edition

Losing Nelson

By Barry Unsworth

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About the book

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 Nelsons's heroism, and as Charles unearths evidence which tarnishes the image of his icon, his own precarious sense of identity is undermined...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780140260915

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2000

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Losing Nelson

Format

Paperback

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