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Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
action and adventure,contemporary,fiction,genre fiction,literary,literature and fiction, Losing Nelson (Norton Paperback Fiction), Perched high atop his pedestal in London, Admiral Horatio Nelson has remained one of the loftiest icons of English nationalism. Now, however, he has been seriously rattled by Barry Unsworth's Losing Nelson, a gripping study of the dark side of heroism and hero worship. In the basement of his large, anonymous North London house, Charles Cleasby obsessively reenacts the admiral's every military maneuver: "Usually when we fought these battles I had a feeling of fulfilment, they brought me closer to him..." Cleasby's admiration also extends upstairs--to his life's work, a biography of the great man. His only assistant in his heroic struggle is Miss Lily (real name, Lilian Butler), a hired secretary who carefully transcribes his painstaking pages. Cleasby wants nothing better than to rescue Nelson from the revisionist clutches of unpatriotic academic cynics. Alas, his passion soon reveals a sinister side, as he declares that he is in fact the admiral's twin: I will say what I think angels are. They can be dark or bright, but they all have the gift of spontaneity, of creating themselves anew. This is a pure form of energy, and Horatio was winged with it. All the same, angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognize each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time or distance. He became a bright angel on February 14,.

Lieferung aus: Kanada, In Stock, plus shipping.
Barry Unsworth, Books, Fiction and Literature, Losing Nelson, Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of Charles Cleasby, a man unable to see himself separately from the hero -- Lord Horatio Nelson -- he mistakenly idolizes. He is, in fact, a Nelson biographer run amok. He is convinced that Nelson, Britain's greatest admiral, who lost his own life defeating Napoleon in the Battle of Trafalgar, is the perfect hero. However, in his research he has come upon an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson's military career that simply stumps all attempts at glorification.

Lieferung aus: Niederlande, 1, Versandkostenfrei.
Slag om Nelson is veel meer dan een historische roman. Het biedt een scherp inzicht in het trauma van een beschadigd kind. Physical, Hardcover.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
9780393321173,0393321177,losing,nelson,barry,unsworth, Excellent Marketplace listings for "Losing Nelson" by Barry Unsworth starting as low as $1.99! Print On Demand, Shipping to USA only!

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, in-stock.
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