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| Titre : | Losing Nelson : A Novel |
| Auteur : | Barry Unsworth |
| Éditions : | Doubleday, 1999
W.W. Norton & Company, 2000
Penguin Books, 2000 |
| Formats : | Livre cartonné
Livres de poche |
| Pages : | 332
352
320 |
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| Description : |
Cleasby is a Nelson biographer. He is convinced that Nelson is the perfect hero.
Every day he relives the events of his life. He reenacts the battles in his basement on a huge
blue-glass table, moving the perfectly rendered ships that represent Nelson's Royal Navy and its
enemies, thus reliving Nelson's triumphs. Until the time when he ran amok coming upon in his
research an incident of horrifying brutality in Nelson's military career that simply stumped
all attempts at glorification.
Losing Nelson is a novel of obsession, the story of a man unable to see himself separately from
the hero he mistakenly idolizes.
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