Arthur And George

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 505 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. A Story Of Two Completely Different Men In The Nineteenth Century. Arthur In Edinburgh And George In The Vicarage Of A Small Staffordshire Village . They Were Brought Together By A Sequence Of Events As The New Century Begins.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780099492733