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As the child of an absent mother and a disapproving father, Charles Cleasby found comfort in solitary games of chess. Many years later, in the house where he grew up and now lives alone, he re-enacts the naval battles of his hero Horatio Nelson, moving model ships as carefully as he once did chess pieces.
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Losing Nelson, Barry Unsworth
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Losing Nelson
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Barry Unsworth
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 009955853X
- ISBN13
- 9780099558538
- Category
- Fiction
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- As the child of an absent mother and a disapproving father, Charles Cleasby found comfort in solitary games of chess. Many years later, in the house where he grew up and now lives alone, he re-enacts the naval battles of his hero Horatio Nelson, moving model ships as carefully as he once did chess pieces.