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,
內容簡介:
''Beryl Bainbridge gets better and better ...she has succeeded
with a daring leap of emphatic imagination in penetrating the minds
of Captain Scott and the four men he led to their deaths in
Antarctica in 1912'' Patrick Skene Catling, Evening Standard THE
BIRTHDAY BOYS is classic Bainbridge - one of her absolute best. It
is a fictional account of Captain Robert Scott''s 1910 expedition to
Antarctica told from the perspectives of five men on the voyage:
Scott; Petty Officer Taff Evans; ship''s medic Dr Edward Wilson;
Lieutenant Henry Bowers; and Captain Lawrence Oates.
關於作者:
Beryl Bainbridge is the author of seventeen novels, two
travel books and five plays, she has been shortlisted for the
Booker Prize five times, and has won many literary awards including
the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British
Book Awards.