{"product_id":"oxygen-9780340728260","title":"Oxygen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e***Out now: Andrew Miller''s new novel THE LAND IN WINTER***\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''ANDREW MILLER''S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT'' Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Beautiful''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Superbly realised''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Breathtaking''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe third novel from the critically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003ePure\u003c\/i\u003e - a deeply moving exploration of courage, love and liberation in the modern age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and László Lázár, who leads a comfortable life in Paris yet is plagued by his memories of the 1956 Hungarian uprising.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSarah Hall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''A wonderful storyteller''\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis prose is \u003cb\u003eperfectly balanced\u003c\/b\u003e, both beautiful and exact * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eElegantly written . . . an \u003cb\u003eintelligent and stylish\u003c\/b\u003e read * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThoughtful, complex and satisfying\u003c\/b\u003e . . . a deeply pleasurable read * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebeautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e novel, which extols the power of love . . . \u003cb\u003eit grabs your attention to the last page\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eA writer of astonishing gifts who peels his characters back to the quick with a language that never misses a note . . . his complex characters are unravelled with a depth and elegance that is \u003cb\u003ebreathtaking\u003c\/b\u003e -- Books of the Year * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eA writer of verve and talent . . . Miller's prose is fluent, lucid and at times \u003cb\u003eradiant\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eMiller's use of imagery is always unexpected, sometimes astonishing . . . \u003cb\u003eimpossible to put down\u003c\/b\u003e * Independent on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eMiller is a writer of such\u003cb\u003e astonishing\u003c\/b\u003e prose that wherever he takes his characters, they speak a rare emotional truth * Scotland on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHighly accomplished\u003c\/b\u003e . . . breathe in and enjoy * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eHe has a surgical disdain for sentimentality and cliche, and \u003cb\u003ehis startling sentences, both beautiful and distressing, can lodge themselves in your brain\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAt times, reading this disparate, exact novel, you have the suspicion that \u003cb\u003eAndrew Miller's writing might be capable of anything\u003c\/b\u003e. It is particularly adept, however, at inhabiting neutered, almost insulated lives. In previous books he has quietly conjured other, odd worlds and made them seem like his own . . . Here the places his imagination visits are no less strange and no less directly realised, and the preoccupation with emotional vacuums persists * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful \u003c\/b\u003eand moving * Time Out *\u003cbr\u003eComplex and elegantly constructed . . . an admirably restrained piece of writing, \u003cb\u003etender, funny, witty, profound\u003c\/b\u003e * Glasgow Sunday Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoignant, probing, brainy fiction\u003c\/b\u003e, animated by an intense and complex narrative drive, grounded in a vivid sense of place and character, and enlivened by a sly, stoical wit that keeps cropping up where you least expect it * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003eLovely, striking, strange, evocative . . . \u003cb\u003eexquisite\u003c\/b\u003e * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eExquisitely detailed . . . \u003cb\u003ea real talent\u003c\/b\u003e * Entertainment Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eexhilarating \u003c\/b\u003ejourney through personal histories and a knowing glimpse at the ways we hold ourselves responsible for saving the people we love * People *\u003cbr\u003eFour intersecting lives - which take the reader to Los Angeles, Paris, Budapest, and a deathbed in rural England - are portrayed with \u003cb\u003euncommon wisdom\u003c\/b\u003e * Boston Globe *","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733610082647,"sku":"9780340728260","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780340728260.jpg?v=1720000829","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oxygen-9780340728260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}