The Optimists - Softcover

Miller, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340836555 ISBN 13: 9780340836552

Publisher: Sceptre, 2005

Synopsis

Paul C. Mcnair has compiled some two dozen useful ideas for sportsmen to utilize in crafting useful items for outdoor sports. This collection of projects, ranging from worm beds to a minnow trap to hunting blinds to a snowmobile carrier and other pick-up-mounted accessories, will carry you through an entire year of outdoor activities.....

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Subtle, beautifully written . . . Miller's prose brings grace and lucidity to what is dark and baffling in Clem's predicament, the predicament of a caring man in an uncaring universe."--The Boston Globe
Clem is a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he goes to Africa and witnesses the aftermath of a genocidal massacre. He returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing--work, love, sex--can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able to connect with is his sister, who has made her own sudden retreat from reality into the shadows of mental illness, and he finds some peace nursing her back to health in rural Somerset. Then news arrives that offers him the chance to confront the source of his nightmares.

This is a masterfully rendered novel that explores the perilously thin line between self-delusion and optimism.  Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International IMPAC Award. He was short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award for his novel Oxygen. He lives in Brighton, England.

From the Inside Flap

Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he went to Africa and witnessed the aftermath of a genocidal massacre.
Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing-work, love, sex- can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able to connect with is his sister, who has made her own sudden retreat from reality into the shadows of mental illness, and he finds some peace nursing her back to health in rural Somerset. Then news arrives that offers him the chance to confront the source of his nightmares.

From the celebrated author of Ingenious Pain and Oxygen, this is a masterfully rendered novel that explores the perilously thin line between self-delusion and optimism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340836555
• ISBN 13: 9780340836552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313