The Optimists: VERY FINE SIGNED LINED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION
Language: English
Published by Sceptre, 2005
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A very fine first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. Unread gift condition SIGNED, LINED 'The next time was at his place' and Publication Day DATED 21st March 2005 by this Costa winning and Booker Listed author to the title page. An outstanding copy with superb attributes. BOXED DESPATCH.
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- Title
- The Optimists: VERY FINE SIGNED LINED & PUBLICATION DAY DATED FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Andrew Miller
- Publisher
- Sceptre
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 034082512X
- ISBN 13
- 9780340825129
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the future?
Clem Glass, a photojournalist, returns from Africa to London convinced he knows the answer - mankind is fundamentally wicked and there is no hope for us. Yet when his sister falls ill and he takes her back to the West Country of their childhood, he cannot ignore the decency, joys and small kindnesses of those around him, or the pulse of goodness in his own heart. Until news comes that offers Clem the chance to confront the author of his nightmares.
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About the Author
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and greeted as the debut of an outstanding new writer. 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 was followed by Casanova, then Oxygen, which was shortlisted for both the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, and One Morning Like A Bird. In 2011, his sixth novel, Pure, was published to great acclaim and went on to win the Costa Book of the Year Award.
Andrew Miller's novels have been translated into thirty languages. Born in Bristol in 1960, he has lived in Spain, Japan, France and Ireland, and currently lives in Somerset.
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