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Richard Temple
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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 examination--one might almost call it a prosecution--of 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 the love of a beautiful and wealthy woman, and it is the failure of this relationship and the outbreak of war that propel him into the world of espionage.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2007
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.60w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780393330663
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 the love of a beautiful and wealthy woman, and it is the failure of this relationship and the outbreak of war that propel him into the world of espionage.
Author: Patrick O'Brian
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2007
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.60w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780393330663
About the Author
O'Brian, Patrick: - One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.
