false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165620490m/7478.jpg 7478 3 In <b>The Fatal Englishman</b><i>,</i> 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.<br>Christopher 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.<br>Richard Hillary was a WWII fighter pilot who wrote a classic account of his <br>experiences, <i>The Last Enemy,</i> but died in a mysterious training accident while defying doctor&#8217;s orders to stay grounded after horrific burn injuries; he was twenty-three.<br>Jeremy Wolfenden, hailed by his contemporaries as the brightest Englishman of <br>his 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.<br>Through the lives of these doomed young men, Faulks paints an oblique <br>portrait of English society as it changed in the twentieth century, from the Victorian era to the modern world. 10594 1996 The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives total:53|5:17|4:19|3:12|2:4|1:1| 53 206 66 4 4 0 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jun 05 08:29:44 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 08:30:11 -0700 2007 The Fatal Englishman is an unusual kind of biography. It traces the lives of three Englishmen - Christopher Wood, Richard Hillary and Jeremy Wolfenden - who shared no connection with one another other than their talent, their ambition, their arrogance, and their early and tragic deaths. Christopher ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 26 23:16:01 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 23:18:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 20 03:36:11 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 17:47:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu May 07 09:21:10 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 09:25:45 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Nov 15 05:34:15 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 05:34:15 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Nov 10 14:25:33 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 14:25:33 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Mon Nov 09 14:19:59 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 14:19:59 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 28 23:33:07 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 23:33:07 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Oct 26 14:27:04 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 14:27:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 03:56:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 03:38:51 -0700 2009 5 0 true false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Fri Oct 23 23:04:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 26 08:48:14 -0800 2009 1 5 0 false false Tue Oct 20 10:45:51 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 10:45:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Sep 27 17:10:13 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 17:10:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 11:18:35 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 11:18:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 05:49:50 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 05:49:50 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Sep 15 09:41:08 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 09:41:08 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 14 12:38:23 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:38:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 05:52:46 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 05:52:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 10:04:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 10:04:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 05:35:52 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 05:35:52 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7478