Ingenious pain / Andrew Miller
1997, Later Edition. London : Hodder and Stoughton. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #241098
ISBN: 0340682078
Physical description; 337 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; "A Sceptre book". Summary; The rise, fall and redemption of an extraordinary man born unable to feel pain. Growing up in the West Country in the mid-18th century, James Dyer grows up to become a brilliant surgeon. En route to St Petersburg he meets a witchlike woman who proves both his nemesis and saviour. Subjects; 18th century. Medicine — History — 18th century. Nervous System Malformations. Physicians — history. Pain. Surgeons. Physicians — Europe — Fiction. Physicians — England — Fiction. English fiction — 20th century. Europe — History — 18th century — Fiction. Historical fiction ; Modern fiction. Fiction / Historical. Fiction / General. Physicians ; Fiction. Genres; Historical fiction. Novels.
Price: €10.00