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  Pure (Hardback) By (author) Andrew Miller

  

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  Short Description for PureThe author of the prize-winning, hugely acclaimed INGENIOUS PAIN returns to the 18th century with an enthralling tale set in pre-revolutionary Paris.
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  • Publisher: Sceptre
  • Published: 01 August 2011
  • Format: Hardback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781444724257 ISBN 10: 1444724258
  • Sales rank: 41,727

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• A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love...A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.