{"product_id":"the-fatal-englishman-three-short-lives-9780375727443","title":"The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives","description":"In \u003cb\u003eThe Fatal Englishman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically young.\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Wood, only twenty-nine when he killed himself, was a painter who lived most of his short life in the beau monde of 1920s Paris, where his charm, good looks, and the dissolute life that followed them sometimes frustrated his ambition and achievement as an artist.\u003cbr\u003eRichard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his \u003cbr\u003eexperiences, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Enemy, \u003c\/i\u003e but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor's orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three.\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of \u003cbr\u003ehis generation, rejected the call of academia to become a hack journalist in Cold War Moscow. A spy, alcoholic, and open homosexual at a time when such activity was still illegal, he died at the age of thirty-one, a victim of his own recklessness and of the peculiar pressures of his time.\u003cbr\u003eThrough the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique \u003cbr\u003eportrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375727443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.17w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 3005\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2002 pg. 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2002 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2002 pg. 1296\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/08\/2002 pg. 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Book Report\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2002 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2002 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sebastian Faulks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44978637635765,"sku":"9780375727443","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_93251cd8-3501-4da3-ad92-acc835479c77.jpg?v=1735063970","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-fatal-englishman-three-short-lives-9780375727443","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}