Mariner Books
The Optimists
The Optimists
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Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he went to Africa and witnessed the aftermath of a genocidal massacre.
Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing-work, love, sex-can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able to connect with is his sister, who has made her own sudden retreat from reality into the shadows of mental illness, and he finds some peace nursing her back to health in rural Somerset. Then news arrives that offers him the chance to confront the source of his nightmares. In The Optimists, Miller explores the perilously thin line between self-delusion and optimism.
Author: Andrew Miller
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/10/2006
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780156030557
Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing-work, love, sex-can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able to connect with is his sister, who has made her own sudden retreat from reality into the shadows of mental illness, and he finds some peace nursing her back to health in rural Somerset. Then news arrives that offers him the chance to confront the source of his nightmares. In The Optimists, Miller explores the perilously thin line between self-delusion and optimism.
Author: Andrew Miller
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 04/10/2006
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780156030557
About the Author
Miller, Andrew: - ANDREW MILLER's novel Ingenious Pain won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International IMPAC Award. He was short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award for his novel Oxygen.
