Imprint
- Sceptre
- Sceptre
- Hodder & Stoughton
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
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Imprint
Sceptre
- Paperback May 7, 1999 | 9780340682104 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 18, 2019 | 9781529361162 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 28, 2011 | 9781848947962 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Sceptre
- Paperback May 7, 1999 | 9780340682104 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 18, 2019 | 9781529361162 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 28, 2011 | 9781848947962 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback May 7, 1999 | 9780340682104 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jul 18, 2019 | 9781529361162 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jan 28, 2011 | 9781848947962 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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A stunning successor to INGENIOUS PAIN, Andrew Miller's second novel brilliantly portrays the legendary Casanova at a turning point in his life and loves.
Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of thirty-eight, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons. But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even harder. Casanova's pursuit of this elusive bewitcher drives him from exhilaration to despair and to attempt to reinvent himself in the roles of labourer, writer and country squire. Based on a little-known episode in Casanova's life, this is a scintillating, poignant, often comic portrait of a far more complex figure than legend suggests and of the decadent society in which he operated. Beautifully written, gripping and surprising, Casanova is a superb successor to INGENIOUS PAIN.
Praise for Casanova
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A witty novel as well as a beautiful one . . . a source of wonder and delight - Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times
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Sparkling and lavishly detailed . . . rich without being cloying; resonant of time and place while remaining fresh and modern . . . he captures brilliantly the downfall and partial redemption of this charming isolate - The Times
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Full-bodied yet razor-sharp . . . his writing is as dextrous as Casanova's love-making. Lie back and enjoy it - Katie Grant, Spectator
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[A] glittering confection of 18th-century moeurs . . . The Hogarthian background is vividly drawn and spotlit by tiny details. - Independent on Sunday
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Miller paints a perfectly crafted picture of 18th-century London and its visiting predator in language as delicate as the tendrils of fog that curl off the Thames, and as forceful as the fetid odours conjured up in the background. - The Times
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Miller's prose is jewelled . . . What Casanova wrote with a swagger resurfaces here as an elegant, elegiac, meditation on the death of purpose - David Coward, Times Literary Supplement
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Exquisite . . . laced with luxurious imagery and wry humour - Stephanie Merritt, Daily Telegraph
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Miller is a pellucid, evocative writer: he brings alive the thick fogs over the Thames, the dreary winter countryside, the lamp-lit London streets. - Observer
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 Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free and The Slowworm's Song.
Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
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