The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals.
Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer George, on his way to becoming a lawyer-near-sighted, timid and friendless-is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat-a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize.
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