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Description for The Optimists
Paperback. The timely, exceptionally powerful new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of OXYGEN Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
***Out now: Andrew Miller's new novel THE LAND IN WINTER**
'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, ... Read more
***Out now: Andrew Miller's new novel THE LAND IN WINTER**
'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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340825136
SKU
KJE0001438
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Andrew Miller
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Optimists
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
Sunday Times
The writing is clear, precise, feelingly observant . . . Miller is a fine writer
Spectator
A powerful and lively book, ... Read more
Sunday Times
The writing is clear, precise, feelingly observant . . . Miller is a fine writer
Spectator
A powerful and lively book, ... Read more