Casanova - Softcover

Andrew Miller

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340682108 ISBN 13: 9780340682104

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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 has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the both 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, and The Crossing. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he has lived in Spain, Japan, France and Ireland, and currently lives in Somerset.

Review:

A full-bodied yet razor-sharp novel * The Spectator * 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 * 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0340682108
• ISBN 13: 9780340682104
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320