Ingenious Pain: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2)
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- Synopsis
- The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer 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 against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 352 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781848947955
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780340682081
- Publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date of Addition:
- 03/18/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Andrew Miller
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.