Uncle Rudolf

Bailey , Paul

ISBN 10: 1841157597 / ISBN 13: 9781841157597

Published by FOURTH ESTATE (HCOL), 2003

About this Item

Tip wear. Curving to text block. Remainder mark. Light tanning to text. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 7.64 X 4.96 X 0.55 inches; 192 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncle Rudolf
• Publisher: FOURTH ESTATE (HCOL)
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841157597
• ISBN 13: 9781841157597
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The haunting new novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.

At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf's brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew's otherwise happy life. Told in matchless prose, this deeply moving novel captures a vanished epoch with exquisite tact and restraint.

About the Author

Paul Bailey is the author of At the Jerusalem (1967) which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Trespasses (1970), A Distant Likeness (1973), Peter Smart's Confessions (1977), shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Old Soldiers (1980), and Sugar Cane (1993). He was the first recipient of the E.M. Forster Award and won a George Orwell Prize for his essay 'The Limitations of Despair'.