Ingenious Pain a Novel
- List Price: $25.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Harcourt
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
Description:
In 1739 James Dyer is born. He never cries, does not speak for his first eleven years, and, strangest of all, he cannot feel pain. When smallpox destroys his family, he joins an itinerant quack selling bogus medicine. Then James Dyer's peculiar nature is discovered, and he is paraded as a freak before the scientific establishment. His subsequent career as a surgeon -- a cold and heartless one, as he cannot empathize with his patients -- is brilliant, but it is only when he meets a witchlike woman that he discovers the true nature of being human, with all its attendant sufferings and joys. Miller's novel is utterly original, a dazzling tale richly evocative of its period and gothic in its sensibilities.
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