Richard Temple

Name: Richard Temple
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ISBN: 9780393330663

ISBN-10: 0393330664

ISBN-13: 9780393330663

Edition: N/A

Authors: Patrick O'Brian

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"One of the best novelists since Jane Austen."Philadelphia Inquirer The protagonist of this World War II novel is a prisoner of the German army in France. In order to keep himself sane while denying the charges and absorbing the beatings of his captors, Richard Temple conducts a minute examinationone might almost call it a prosecutionof his own life. Temple escapes from a blighted childhood and his widowed, alcoholic mother thanks to an artistic gift, the one thing of value he has to his name. His life as a painter in London of the '30s is cruelly deprived. In order to eat, he squanders this one asset by becoming a forger of art, specializing in minor works by Utrillo. He is rescued by…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Patrick O'Brian is the author of twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey/Maturin series of novels.