Name: The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (en Inglés)
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Author: Sebastian Faulks
ISBN: 9780375727443

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The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage

Autor

Sebastian Faulks

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

ISBN

0375727442

ISBN13

9780375727443

Categorías

Biografía: histórica, política y militar

The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives (en Inglés)

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In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young.Christopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist.Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor’s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three.Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of his generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time.Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.