The Birthday Boys - Hardcover

Bainbridge, Beryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786700718 ISBN 13: 9780786700714

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994

Synopsis

An imaginative, brilliantly realized evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

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Review:

Bainbridge's account of the horribly familiar story is both fresh and sure-footed. The power of her imagination, her clarity of expression and mastery of language are more striking than anything else I have read this year (Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph)

A beautiful piece of story-telling. Far more accurately than any biography could do, it catches what must have been Scott's hold on his followers (Andro Linklater, Spectator)

Her darkest work, equally convincing in tis evocations of the icy, unendurable landscape without, and the chilling interior landscapes of damaged souls (Penny Perrick, Sunday Telegraph)

She writes of the hideous deprivations so boldly endured; the astounding beauties of the Antarctic landscapes; the personality clashes; the emotional reticences . . . It seems to me that Beryl Bainbridge has quite surpassed herself in a completely new im (Mary Hope, Financial Times)

Book Description:

* A Bainbridge classic comes into Abacus paperback for the first time

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0786700718
• ISBN 13: 9780786700714
• Binding: Hardcover