Joseph (Julian Rathbone)
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Julian Rathbone
Medium Paperback
Joseph Bosham, self-styled third Viscount of Bosham, with a half-English Catholic priest for a father and an Italian brothel-keeper in place of a mother, educated in mathematics, music, and philosophy, but with a gift for narrative and a natural bent for depravity, was born into the turbulent Europe of 1790 and settled in Spain. There, gypsies, devil-worshippers, and the remnants of the Inquisition fought for space with the great armies of Wellington and Napoleon. Seduced by the hectic glamour of battle at the age of eleven and tossed in its wake for the next fifteen years, little Jos survives as courier, pimp, linguist, mercenary, and mascot to tell his poignant, comic, richly entertaining, and tantalizingly unreliable tale. Shortlisted for Britain's Booker Prize in 1979, and now available for the first time in paperback, Julian Rathbone's re-invention of the picaresque is a riotous, complex, and deliciously subversive masterpiece.
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