Andrew Miller, Author . Harcourt $24 (313p) ISBN 978-0-15-100727-1
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THE OPTIMISTS
Andrew Miller
. Harcourt
, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-15-1007
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Andrew Miller, Author, Ron Miller, Author, Karen Miller, Author . Harcourt $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-100721-9
Three characters on the cusp of crisis and one on the brink of death inhabit Miller's moving new novel, in which each grapples with despair and discovers that love can confer purifying strength. Widowed school administrator Alice Valentine is...
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Andrew Miller, Author, Karen Miller, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100258-0
Miller's debut novel is a bildungsroman with an inventive twist. His 18th-century hero, James Dyer, is incapable of feeling pain or experiencing pleasure. Unlike most coming-of-age novels, which detail the emotional pains of the protagonist as he...
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Andrew Miller. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $17 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-60945-067-0
In another exploration of historical lacunae, Miller (Ingenious Pain) delves into pre-Revolutionary Paris, where a pestilential, ancient cemetery acts as metaphor for the blighted reign of King Louis XVI. Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young Norman...
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Andrew Miller. Europa, $18 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-60945-800-3
In this meditative if diffuse offering from Miller (Pure), the past comes calling for an ex-soldier whose actions 30 years earlier during the Troubles continue to weigh on him. As a young British infantryman patrolling Belfast in 1982, Stephen Rose...
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