Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed

dean king

Patrick O'Brian, the late author of the immensely popular Aubrey-Maturin novels, zealously guarded the details of his past. Now Dean King - an expert on nautical literature and on O'Brian's novels - unveils the story of Richard Patrick Russ, a writer and intellectual who emerged from the Second World War as Patrick O'Brian, a persona created in his own imagination and later refined by decades of rumour and speculation. Drawing on interviews with relatives (including O'Brian's brother and son), friends and colleagues of his famously reclusive subject, King has fashioned a wealth of information into a dramatic and illuminating account of O'Brian's life and work.

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427 pages, Hardcover

First published August 31,2000

This edition

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 2000 by Hodder \u0026 Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340792568
ASIN: 0340792566
Language: English

About the author

dean king

I like to read, wander cross-country, travel in cultures I don't understand, cycle, play squash, and I'm a foodie. But most of all I like to be in the throes of writing a book. This is invigorating work. The moment when the hard-won research combines with a bit of sweat and blood and occasionally a tear to become a fluid paragraph is like no other. What I hope to achieve is to suspend time and disbelief for the reader and carry her or him into another world, where they live more fully and in the moment.