Pure by Andrew Miller

Pure by Andrew Miller

The author of the prize-winning, hugely acclaimed INGENIOUS PAIN returns to the 18th century with an enthralling tale set in pre-revolutionary Paris. The 2011 Costa Book of the Year.

His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it * The Times *
Enthralling.. superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved * Observer *
Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing * Sunday Telegraph *
It draws you in with hallucinatory power * Daily Mail *
Superb * Literary Review *
Dazzling * Guardian *

Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and greeted as the debut of an outstanding new writer. 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, and The Crossing. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.

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ISBN 13	9781444724257
ISBN 10	1444724258
Title	Pure
Author	Andrew Miller
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2011-06-09
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Costa Book of the Year 2011, Winner of Costa Novel Award 2011
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