THE OPTIMISTS BY ANDREW MILLER HARCOURT, 313 PP., $24

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: June 5, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Sight and blindness, madness and sanity, engagement and withdrawal, the banality of evil: these large themes are explored on a deceptively small scale in this subtle, beautifully written novel by Andrew Miller.

The man in the eye of the existential storm is Clem Glass, a photojournalist haunted by the horror of a massacre into which he stumbled while on assignment in Africa. Back at home in London, he finds he cannot pick up the pieces of his life, cannot make himself whole. The victims he has witnessed, and photographed, are as invisible to the people around him as the demons tormenting his ...

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