Andrew Miller–INGENIOUS PAIN
Posted in Historical, Literary, Psychological study, Social and Political Issues on Jan 15th, 2009
What a thrill to read a novel by a first time author so skilled and so committed to his subject that he can reject all the conventions and still get his surprising book published–receiving rave reviews on two continents in the process! Creatively daring, completely unconventional, and successful! Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Award, 1999.
Miller sets the book in the eighteenth century and begins with a graphic autopsy of the main character. Here he recreates the philosophical and scientific attitudes of the period, attitudes which are alien to our own, and which he will explore as a subtext throughout the book. c
