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Title	:	Pure
Author	:	Andrew Miller
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 346 pages
Published	:	January 5th 2012 by Sceptre (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. France

Pure

Andrew Miller

Hardcover | Pages: 346 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 8419 Users | 1050 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Pure
ISBN:	1444724258 (ISBN13: 9781444724257)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Paris,1785(France)
Literary Awards:	Costa Book Award for Novel (2011), Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2012), Costa Book of the Year (2011), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2013)

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I was enchanted by this book at the beginning. It is beautifully written and immediately creates a world that is both haunting and convincing. In pre-revolutionary France, a young engineer from the provinces, eager to impress, is given the task of clearing a cemetery in the centre of Paris. The engineers work throws him into a world of colourful characters a woman who exchanges sexual favours for books, a gang of foundlings turned agitators, a priest sent mad by torture. The engineer has to

I really enjoyed this book. The author created a vulnerable protagonist who succeeds against the opposition and distractions. I found the relentless progress through careful and difficult work inspiring. The engineer grows through the pages and the quality of writing and detailed observation of his inner struggle endeared him to me. Many of us scratch fearfully at closed doors. I was reminded of Camus, both in theme of freedom through action and love, and through the use of extended allegory.

I could not put this book down. It made me ignore family members without even meaning to. Way more than usual, even. :DWhat's a little danse macabre between friends?Pure focuses on Jean-Baptiste, a fledgling late-18th-century engineer whose first commission is an impossible one: to efficiently empty the oldest cemetery in Paris and demolish the cemetery's cathedral. Author Andrew Miller includes something for everyone in this good-natured tale. Engineer Jean-Baptiste is a country mouse who gets

What a disappointment! Miller could have done so much more with this concept (the destruction of Les Innocents in Paris). Unfortunately, the novel is too short; atrocious under development of character, a lack of any cultivated plot and a dismal amount of the ins and outs of the mechanics of such a project (demolition of a church, exhumation of thousands of corpses etc) left me thinking there really wasn't much depth to the novel.There is much potential in this novel, Miller's use of a wide

more about this novel shortly. for now: I had no expectations going into this book and was quite happy with what came out of it. While I didn't find it breathtaking, it clearly shows how what will happen in 1789 was already in the works in 1785, so it more than made me a happy reader. more soon.

The year is 1785, and Jean-Baptiste Baratte is a young engineer from Normandy, summoned to Versailles. He hopes that his mission will be to construct some kind of bridge or impressive new building in the French capital. Instead he is told to empty the abandoned cemetery of Les Innocents, a putrid pit of mass graves, and to demolish the adjoining church. Taking up residence in the nearby guesthouse of the Monnard family, he goes about planning the job at hand and hiring the workers he needs. He

I ended up feeling a bit let down by Pure. Miller is a luscious writer -- never a word wrong as he sketches a 1785 Paris that is about to boil over (but hasn't yet). He achieves a masterful balance between enough historical detail so that you can see, taste, and (unfortunately) smell the book's setting without ever seeming didactic or overly lecturing (ahem, Amitav Ghosh -- who I read simultaneously with this). Indeed, the prose is so graceful that the whole book has a sensuous feel despite the