num_pages: 224
description: Man Booker Prize Nominee (1998)When Master Georgie - George Hardy, surgeon and photographer - sets off from the cold squalor of Victorian Liverpool for the heat and glitter of the Bosphorus to offer his services in the Crimea, there straggles behind him a small caravan of devoted followers; Myrtle, his adoring adoptive sister; lapsed geologist Dr Potter; and photographer's assistant and sometime fire-eater Pompey Jones, all of them driven onwards through a rising tide of death and disease by a shared and mysterious guilt.Combining a breathtaking eye for beauty with a visceral understanding of mortality, Beryl Bainbridge exposes her enigmatic hero as tenderly and unsparingly as she reveals the filth and misery of war, and creates a novel of luminous depth and extraordinary intensity.
language: English
title: Master Georgie
titlecomplete: Master Georgie
genres: Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, British Literature, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2255
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Abacus