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Article: Losing Nelson.(Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- June 22, 2000
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Barry Unsworth. Losing Nelson. New York. Doubleday. 1999. 338 pages. $23.95. ISBN 0-385-48652-9.
Many of us walk through Trafalgar Square when we are in London. We admire the lions and the fountain. But how many of us gaze up to the top of the long pillar to see the celebrated one-armed adulterer, Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), standing there and gazing out with his one serviceable eye on the city and nation he saved from an expected invasion by the French? Also, how many of us know what Trafalgar means?
Losing Nelson is a stimulating way to find out. A brilliant historical novel, it reinvents Nelson the killer, Nelson the superpatriot, Nelson the ...