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| | LOSING NELSON - Barry Unsworth - Penguin UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | But as Charles's visiting typist Miss Lily begins to question Nelson's heroism, and as Charles unearths evidence which tarnishes the image of his icon, his own precarious sense of identity is undermined and the battle raging inside him: between darkness and light, reality and fantasy, threatens to overwhelm him... |
 | | Losing Nelson may be Unsworth's best book to date; it is accomplished, effective, exciting and intelligent...information is cunningly deployed, the pace is perfectly controlled: the mood of zealous desperation...is heightened from page to page. |
 | | 'In Nelson's life, as in all lives, there were concurrent paths, lines running in parallel, each characterized by a cluster of attributes particular to itself, appearing simple in stated form but complex and subtle in suggestion. |
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