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In the illustrious history of the theatrical Fishers, there are two Georges. One is a peculiar but endearing eleven year old, raised in the seedy world of boarding houses and backstages, now packed off to school for the first time; the other, a garrulous ventriloquist's dummy who belonged to George's grandfather, a favourite travelling act of the British troops in World War II. The two Georges know nothing of each other - until events conspire to unite them in a search to uncover the family's deepest secrets.
While the dummy lies dusty, silent and abandoned, his young namesake sets out to learn about his dead grandfather's past as a world-famous ventriloquist, his magical powers and their family's curious history.
Weaving the boy's tale and the puppet's memoirs, By George unveils the fascinating Fisher family - its weak men, its dominant women, its disgruntled boys, and its shocking and dramatic secrets. At once bitingly funny and exquisitely tender, Wesley Stace's novel is the unforgettable journey of two young boys separated by years but driven by the same desire: to find a voice, and to be loved.
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'(Stace) has a startling imaginative talent,... but, crucially, he has an ability to bind good ideas to an absorbing plot.' -- Times Literary Supplement
'... a well-nigh effortless portrait of alienation and sublimated affection.... brimming with imagination'
-- Daily Telegraph
'[a] delightful and ingenious examination of love and the desire for a voice of one's own. Entrancing'
-- Easy Living
By George is one of those rare works, it's funny, it's clever and
it's perfectly woven together with story.
-- Colum McCann
`Engrossing second novel... a writer well worth watching' -- Indepenent on Sunday
`This is an ingenious novel, full of affection for a vanished world'
-- Daily Mail
`This novel is a marvellous evocation of the `gottle o' gear' branch of showbiz'
-- Cambridge Alumni Magazine
`thoroughly satisfying' -- The Independant
'... a well-nigh effortless portrait of alienation and sublimated affection.... brimming with imagination'
-- Daily Telegraph
'[a] delightful and ingenious examination of love and the desire for a voice of one's own. Entrancing'
-- Easy Living
By George is one of those rare works, it's funny, it's clever and
it's perfectly woven together with story.
-- Colum McCann
`Engrossing second novel... a writer well worth watching' -- Indepenent on Sunday
`This is an ingenious novel, full of affection for a vanished world'
-- Daily Mail
`This novel is a marvellous evocation of the `gottle o' gear' branch of showbiz'
-- Cambridge Alumni Magazine
`thoroughly satisfying' -- The Independant
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0224081756
- ISBN 13 9780224081757
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages400
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