Arthur and George
Author(s): Julian Barnes
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize . Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove.
Product Information
A brilliant novel that will take Julian Barnes sales to a new level: his most accessible, most heartfelt novel ever.
Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006 and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.41
- : 01 April 2006
- : 198mm X 129mm X 32mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Julian Barnes
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : en
- : very good
- : 512