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 Losing Nelson - Barry Unsworth
Newest Review: ... inheritance, but his social gaucheness (he is unable to maintain eye-contact with anyone for example) has turned him into a ... more  ... recluse. So he scuttles to and from the sanctuary of his home, and the models in his basement, as rarely as possible. He is trying to write a definitive biography of Nelson, and to this end he hires a woman from a secretarial agency to act as his amanuensis. But Miss Lily, as he calls her, does more than just type up his manuscript, she tries to break through his reserve by taking an interest in his hero. But she is far less impressed by Nelson's achievements, based, as they were, on so much loss of young ...more |
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Losing Nelson - Barry Unsworth: one eye, one arm and one a-social anorak (458 words)
by pje - written on 27/05/01 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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To Charles Cleasby, February 14th 1997 is not Valentine's Day, it's the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, where Nelson became a national hero. The thought of not getting home in time to re-enact the battle in his basement at the exact time that it was fought makes him feel ill. Horatio Nelson is not just Charles's hero, he is his obsession. Cleasby is a very repressed ex-public schoolboy. The son of a stern and emotionally undemonstrative father he feels unable to live up to, and a mother who left home when he was nine. He is financially secure thanks to an inheritance, but his social gaucheness (he is ...
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