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DescriptionShortlisted 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. Promotion infoA brilliant novel that will take Julian Barnes sales to a new level: his most accessible, most heartfelt novel ever. AwardsShortlisted for British Book Awards: Best Read of the Year 2006 and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007. Reviews" Extraordinary.... First rate.... A cracking good yarn." Author descriptionJulian Barnes is the author of eight novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 Chapters, England, England and Love Etc., and two collections of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table. |