Oxygen: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize - Softcover

His prose is perfectly balanced, both beautiful and exact * The Times * Miller's use of imagery is always unexpected, sometimes astonishing ... it is also impossible to put down * Independent on Sunday * Miller's use of imagery is always unexpected, sometimes astonishing ... it is also impossible to put down * Independent on Sunday * Highly accomplished ... breathe in and enjoy * Spectator * Highly accomplished ... breathe in and enjoy * Spectator *

Shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize and Whitbread Novel of the Year Award In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and Laszlo Lazar, who leads a comfortable life in Paris yet is plagued by his memories of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. For each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseen.