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Ingenious Pain ‡

Andrew Miller

2

awards won

24

score

#77 of 8,085 books · #11 in Fantasy

Won the International Dublin Literary Award (1999) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1997).

In the mid-18th century James Dyer is born unable to feel pain, and grows up to be a brilliant but heartless brain surgeon. Then, en route to St Petersburg in 1767, he meets his match - a strange woman with supernatural healing powers. When she introduces him to pain he is driven mad with shock.

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Publisher
Harcourt Brace
ISBN-13
9780340682081
Topics
Pain and suffering18th century medicineIdentity and transformation

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