Death's Enemy by George Rosie
This story is set in the republic of Geneva in 1792: when his beloved mother suffers a slow and agonising death, young Victor Frankenstein pledges himself to become death's implacable enemy. So begins a medical and scientific pilgrimage that takes Victor from his childhood home to the University of Ingolstadt in Balvaria, and into the electrical clinics and bloody dissection rooms of London. As a military surgeon with Napoleon's army on the Danube, he is present at the seige of Ulm and attends to the wounded and dying on the killing fields of Austerlitz. Eventually his researches take him to Scotland where, with the anatomists of Edinburgh, he practises his skills as a surgeon, electrician and apprentice bodysnatcher. It is here he witnesses a startling experiment on the body of a hanged man which leads to the culmination of his work - the defeat of death itself.
'Inventive, witty and imaginative..this is fine stuff...full of delight and interest...masterly' Scotsman
Born in 1941, George Rosie was educated in Edinburgh. He has worked as a journalist, including as the Sunday Times Scottish Affairs Correspondent, in television, including as associate producer on After Lockerbie, which won the BAFTA for best documentary in 1999, as a dramatist (his plays have won many awards including the Guardian Critics Award and the Independent Theatre award) and writer (his non-fiction books include The British in Vietnam). Death's Enemy is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099422334 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099422336 |
| Title | Death's Enemy |
| Author | George Rosie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2002-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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