'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel 'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday Times 'Exceptional' Sunday Times 'Powerful and lively'Financial Times 'A delight' Time Out The extraordinary fourth novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Oxygen In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the future? Clem Glass, a photojournalist, returns from Africa to London convinced there is no hope for mankind. Yet after his sister falls ill and he takes her back to the West Country of their childhood, he cannot ignore the decency and kindness he encounters, or the pulse of goodness in his own heart. When news comes offering Clem the chance to confront the author of his nightmares, he must choose what sort of man to be. PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER 'Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity' Sarah Hall 'A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts' Independent on Sunday 'A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative' The Times 'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator
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The timely, exceptionally powerful new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of OXYGEN
Exceptional . . . it describes a journey with many false starts and blind alleys; in its attention to detail, and its recurring theme of the power of images, it does so spellbindingly
Exceptional - Sunday TimesA profound novel, meditative, not conclusive . . . Yet despite the absence of an easy happy ending, it leaves the reader with a feeling of courage and, in the face of so much evidence to the contrary, hope. - ObserverThe writing is clear, precise, feelingly observant - SpectatorA delight to read . . . a novel of great intelligence and understanding, populated by characters who are recognisable yet exceptional. - Time OutA powerful and lively book, seriously engaged and cathartic . . . gently, almost imperceptibly, impelled by the nourishment of love. - Financial TimesThe uncluttered narrative and the slow, quiet accumulation of everyday detail imbues this novel with a quiet grace - Daily MailThis novel represents a shocking, moving but ultimately hopeful vision of the best and worst of humanity. - Daily ExpressIn Clem Glass, Miller has created neither a victim nor a victor but a man driven by his own innate decency, a character in whom we can believe, a person about whom we care and that is what great writing is about. - Irish Times
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The timely, exceptionally powerful new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of OXYGEN

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780340825136
Publisert
2006-02-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Sceptre
Vekt
260 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320

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.