Ingenious Pain

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize

Andrew Miller author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Published:19th Feb '98

Should be back in stock very soon

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Andrew Miller's extraordinarily acclaimed and prizewinning debut, featuring an 18th-century surgeon who is unable to feel pain

***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

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

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 *

  • Winner of International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1999

ISBN: 9780340682081

Dimensions: 196mm x 128mm x 28mm

Weight: 252g

352 pages

2nd edition