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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)

Pure

Andrew Miller

Hardcover | Pages: 346 pages

Rating: 3.58 | 8419 Users | 1050 Reviews

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

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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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I enjoy books like this one, ones that focus not on shoving obstacles and enemies into the path of the plot, but instead work to give the main character friendship, fortune, and even love despite their misfortunes. There's just something satisfying in seeing characters work effectively with one another, together dealing with all that life throws at them. In other words, I'm a fan of authors who don't make all their characters insufferable prats just because they can. It's easy to get weary of

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

Surely one of the goals of a writer of historical fiction is to bring the past to life for the reader, to immerse him or her in the images, scents, tastes, beliefs and inhabitants of another time. Miller does an excellent job of this. Whenever I picked up the book and started reading I was immediately pulled into 18th century Paris, particularly the streets around the Cemetery of Les Innocents and the decay emanating from rotting bodies buried there. There isn't much that is pretty in this book,

I enjoyed this book, but was left a little unsatisfied. I love the way Miller writes, and this is a soft touch on the pre-revolutionary Paris, only tangentially touching on the politics - I wanted it to be more grisly and gruesome, considering Baratte is tasked with moving the contents of the cemetery of les Innocents, which at the time was overflowing into people's cellars. I wanted more politics and more of an insight into the perspectives at Versailles and those of the common people. I wanted

Set in the years just preceding the French Revolution. Pure is a story about a young Engineer Jean Baptiste given the unenviable task of clearing the overrun, collapsing and foul smelling cemetery of l'Innocents and demolishing the adjacent church. This clearance is an historical fact with the bones being stored in the Catacombs of Paris.This is not just an historical account of the cemetery clearing; it also alludes to the underlying of chaos and decay of the traditional way of life and the

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.

It was the subject matter that attracted me to this book, as it seemed so unusual, based on an actual event, the clearing of Les Innocents graveyard in Paris which had become what we would refer to nowadays as a health hazard.This gruesome task is undertaken by a young engineer who is commissioned to complete the task in a year.What follows is the dark but compelling story of how this work was done, and it's effects on those involved.There are many unusual and interesting characters, suicide,