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Description for Ingenious Pain
paperback. Andrew Miller's extraordinarily acclaimed and prizewinning debut, featuring an 18th-century surgeon who is unable to feel pain Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224. Very good copy showing minor age and wear. Slight scuffing to cover
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'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
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award
'Astoundingly good'
The Times
'Dazzling'
Observer
'Timeless'
Spectator
The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller - a highly imaginative, atmospheric first novel
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, a man 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, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
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
'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
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award
'Astoundingly good'
The Times
'Dazzling'
Observer
'Timeless'
Spectator
The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller - a highly imaginative, atmospheric first novel
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, a man 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, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Sceptre London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340682081
SKU
KMK0025698
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Andrew Milller
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, The Slowworm's Song and The Land in Winter. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
Reviews for Ingenious Pain
A wild adventure through 18th-century England and Russia, medicine, madness, landscape and weather, rendered in prose of consummate beauty
Books of the Year
Independent
A really remarkable first novel, original, powerfully written . . . Miller's narrative is gripping and his imagination extraordinary
Sunday Telegraph
Astoundingly good . . . it shines like a beacon
The Times
Timeless and thought-provoking . . . it is something very rare in modern fiction, a true work of art
Spectator
Gripping . . . a dazzling debut
Observer
Dazzling . . . Miller tackles notions of mortality and humanity to brilliant effect . . . truly wonderful
Evening Standard
An extraordinary first novel . . . one is constantly delighted with strange and vivid imagery, fresh and startling metaphors, flashes of insight, deft twists of plot and resonant variations on dominant themes . . . a mature novel of ideas soaked in the sensory detail of its turbulent times
New York Times Book Review
Exceptionally intelligent and elegant . . . remarkable for its feeling and its humane sensibility
Sunday Times
A true rarity: a debut novel which is original, memorable, engrossing and subtle
Guardian
Strange, unsettling, sad, beautiful and profound . . . the sense of period is brilliantly handled
Literary Review
More than merits comparison with the likes of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Patrick Süskind's Perfume . . . a blistering debut
Time Out
The novel's evocation of the period, down to the finest detail, is thoroughly confident . . . a startling novel
Independent on Sunday
A finely wrought and provocative novel
Daily Telegraph
Impressive
Mail on Sunday
Books of the Year
Independent
A really remarkable first novel, original, powerfully written . . . Miller's narrative is gripping and his imagination extraordinary
Sunday Telegraph
Astoundingly good . . . it shines like a beacon
The Times
Timeless and thought-provoking . . . it is something very rare in modern fiction, a true work of art
Spectator
Gripping . . . a dazzling debut
Observer
Dazzling . . . Miller tackles notions of mortality and humanity to brilliant effect . . . truly wonderful
Evening Standard
An extraordinary first novel . . . one is constantly delighted with strange and vivid imagery, fresh and startling metaphors, flashes of insight, deft twists of plot and resonant variations on dominant themes . . . a mature novel of ideas soaked in the sensory detail of its turbulent times
New York Times Book Review
Exceptionally intelligent and elegant . . . remarkable for its feeling and its humane sensibility
Sunday Times
A true rarity: a debut novel which is original, memorable, engrossing and subtle
Guardian
Strange, unsettling, sad, beautiful and profound . . . the sense of period is brilliantly handled
Literary Review
More than merits comparison with the likes of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Patrick Süskind's Perfume . . . a blistering debut
Time Out
The novel's evocation of the period, down to the finest detail, is thoroughly confident . . . a startling novel
Independent on Sunday
A finely wrought and provocative novel
Daily Telegraph
Impressive
Mail on Sunday