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The famed Venetian seducer and adventurer relives a turning point in his life. He arrives in London to revive his jaded palate and shake off the moods that have begun to trouble him, but then he meets Marie Charpillon and so begins the pursuit which drives him to doubt his worth and purpose.
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About the Author
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 both 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 has lived in Spain, Japan, France and Ireland, and currently lives in Somerset.
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A full-bodied yet razor-sharp novel * The Spectator * Another sparkling and lavishly detailed tale ... Miller is an extraordinarily confident writer of historical fiction * The Times * Another sparkling and lavishly detailed tale ... Miller is an extraordinarily confident writer of historical fiction * The Times * His writing is vivid, precise and constantly surprising. I was absolutely captivated by it ... I wish I'd written it -- Hilary Mantel His writing is vivid, precise and constantly surprising. I was absolutely captivated by it ... I wish I'd written it -- Hilary Mantel
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- PublisherTRAFALGAR SQUARE +
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0340738782
- ISBN 13 9780340738788
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages279
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