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Casanova Andrew Miller

Casanova By Andrew Miller

Casanova by Andrew Miller


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Summary

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.

Casanova Summary

Casanova by Andrew Miller

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.

Casanova Reviews

His writing is vivid, precise and constantly surprising. I was absolutely captivated by it ... I wish I'd written it -- Hilary Mantel
His writing is vivid, precise and constantly surprising. I was absolutely captivated by it ... I wish I'd written it -- Hilary Mantel
Another sparkling and lavishly detailed tale ... Miller is an extraordinarily confident writer of historical fiction * The Times *
Another sparkling and lavishly detailed tale ... Miller is an extraordinarily confident writer of historical fiction * The Times *
A full-bodied yet razor-sharp novel * The Spectator *

About 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 and Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.

Additional information

GOR002731421
9780340682104
0340682108
Casanova by Andrew Miller
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Hodder & Stoughton
19990415
320
N/A
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