Pure

by Andrew Miller

Book Overview

The clearing of a cemetery stokes the fires of revolution in eighteenth-century France in this Costa Prize-winning "novel of ideas disguised as a ghost story" (The New York Times).

Paris, 1785. An ambitious young engineer, Jean-Baptiste Baratte arrives in Paris charged with emptying the overflowing cemetery of Les Innocents, an ancient site whose stench is poisoning the neighborhood's air and water. A self-styled modern man...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609450671
• ISBN13: 9781609450670
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher