Description
In this compelling collective biography, Sebastian Faulks examines the brief, brilliant lives of three remarkable Englishmen: painter Christopher Wood, wartime airman Richard Hillary, and spy Jeremy Wolfenden. Each possessed extraordinary promise and became, in different ways, a symbol of his generation, yet each life was cut short before its potential could fully unfold. Through their stories, Faulks explores ambition, artistic and national identity, heroism, disillusionment, and the pressures exerted by twentieth-century Britain on those who sought to transcend its limitations. Perceptive, elegiac, and richly atmospheric, the book asks what short lives can reveal about the societies that shape—and sometimes fail—their most gifted sons.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2009
ISBN: 9781407052700
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Details
First Published
1996
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks.