Spain - 1808 to 1813 - where Revolution collides with Reaction, a British Army with a French; the Spain of Goya, where ignorant armies clash and from under them all comes the voice of Joseph: by birth European, by education enlightened, and living in Salamanca which suffered a new invasion every six months and saw one of Wellington's greatest battles. From the moment in early childhood when Joseph hurls a stone at a playmate and makes an evil enemy for life, to the last page when he climbs a hill in North Spain accompanied by a donkey, a giantess, and a new-born babe, and blunders into a battle, he takes the reader by the elbow and hurries him 'will he or will he not' across the terrible years that saw the birth of our own times. Racy, picaresque, but with an underlying seriousness, JOSEPH is a panoramic novel of the Spanish Penisular War, revealing as Goya did its grotesqueries and ironies as well as its horrifying waste of life. Rathbone's wit, sensitivity and confident grasp of the subject are superbly matched to this brilliant historical scene. JOSEPH has never before been published in paperback.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9780349112275
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96293252
Product Key Features
Book Title
Joseph
Author
Julian Rathbone
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Historical
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
200mm
Item Width
120mm
Item Weight
780g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Julian Rathbone
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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