Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

Ingenious Pain

Andrew Miller

337 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction historical reflective slow-paced
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In 1739 James Dyer is born. He never cries, does not speak until the age of 11 and, strangest of all, cannot feel pain. When smallpox destroys his family, he joins an itinerant quack who uses him to sell bogus medicine. Then a wealthy disciple of ...

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