Patrick O'Brian

Richard Temple: A Novel (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen."Philadelphia Inquirer

The protagonist of this World War II novel is a prisoner of the German army in France. In order to keep himself sane while denying the charges and absorbing the beatings of his captors, Richard Temple conducts a minute examinationone might almost call it a prosecutionof his own life.

Temple escapes from a blighted childhood and his widowed, alcoholic mother thanks to an artistic gift, the one thing of value he has to his name. His life as a painter in London of the '30s is cruelly deprived. In order to eat, he squanders this one asset by becoming a forger of art, specializing in minor works by Utrillo. He is rescued by the love of a beautiful and wealthy woman, and it is the failure of this relationship and the outbreak of war that propel him into the world of espionage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393245134
• Artikelnr.: 59592089

Autorenporträt

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.