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Arthur & George
Julian Barnes
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Overview
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain. A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyAs boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later—one struggling with his identity in a world hostile to his ancestry, the other creating the world’s most famous detective while in love with a woman who is not his wife—their fates become inextricably connected.
Details
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2007-01-09
- Pages
- 464
- Language
- EN
- Categories
- Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Biographical, Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical
- ISBN-13
- 9781400097036
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