The Optimists
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: April 11, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780151007271
First sentence: After the massacre at the church in N- Clem Glass flew home to London.
Description: Clem Glass was a successful photojournalist, firm in the belief that photographs could capture truth and beauty. Until he went to Africa and witnessed the aftermath of a genocidal massacre. Clem returns to London with his faith in human nature shattered and his life derailed. Nothing--work, love, sex--can rouse his interest and no other outlook can restore his faith. The one person Clem is able to connect with is his sister, who has made her own sudden retreat from reality into the shadows of mental illness, and he finds some peace nursing her back to health in rural Somerset. Then news arrives that offers him the chance to confront the source of his nightmares.