Tom Bedlam
Subtitle: a novel
By: George Hagen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781400062225
Description: Hagen (The Laments) rolls out the entertaining epic tale of the personable protagonist Tom Bedlam, beginning in Victorian London and ending in post-WWI South Africa. Along the way, Tom survives a rowdy boarding school, studies medicine in Scotland (where he changes his name to the more proper-sounding Tom Chapel), elopes to South Africa with his professor's daughter and fathers three daughters and a son.