Pure - Hardcover

Miller, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444724258 ISBN 13: 9781444724257

Verlag: Sceptre, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

First impression, some wear and bumping to illudtrated boards, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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Críticas

Dazzling * Guardian * Superb * Literary Review * It draws you in with hallucinatory power * Daily Mail * Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing * Sunday Telegraph * Enthralling ... superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved * Observer * His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it * The Times *

Reseña del editor

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (2011) A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love... A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.

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• Verlag: Sceptre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1444724258
• ISBN 13: 9781444724257
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352