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ISBN
9781529361131
Publisert
2019-07-11
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John Murray Publishers Ltd
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00, G, 01
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Engelsk
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Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free and The Slowworm's Song.Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviour.(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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A wild adventure through 18th-century England and Russia, medicine, madness, landscape and weather, rendered in prose of consummate beauty
A wild adventure through 18th-century England and Russia, medicine, madness, landscape and weather, rendered in prose of consummate beauty. - Independent Books of the YearDazzling . . . Miller tackles notions of mortality and humanity to brilliant effect . . . truly wonderful - Evening StandardAstoundingly good . . . it shines like a beacon among the grey dross of much contemporary fiction - The TimesA really remarkable first novel, original, powerfully written . . . Miller's narrative is gripping and his imagination extraordinary. - Sunday TelegraphA timeless and thought-provoking fable about human nature . . . It is something very rare in modern fiction, a true work of art. - SpectatorStrange, unsettling, sad, beautiful, and profound - Literary Review
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Andrew Miller's extraordinarily acclaimed and prizewinning debut, featuring an 18th-century surgeon who is unable to feel pain
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781529361131
Publisert
2019-07-11
Utgiver
Vendor
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Lydfil
Forfatter
Lest av
Biographical note
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free and The Slowworm's Song.Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.