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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, unendurable landscape
without, and the chilling interior landscapes of damaged souls
Penny Perrick, Sunday Telegraph She writes of the hideous
deprivations so boldly endured; the astounding beauties of the
Antarctic landscapes; the personality clashes; the emotional
reticences ... It seems to me that Beryl Bainbridge has quite
surpassed herself in a completely new im Mary Hope, Financial
Times
内容简介
'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.