The Book of Madness and Cures: A Novel
Autor Regina O'Melvenyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2013
A
brilliant
debut
about
a
woman
doctor
in
Renaissance
Venice,
forced
to
cross
Europe
in
search
of
her
father.
Filled with medical lore and sensuous, vivid details of Renaissance life, THE BOOK OF MADNESS AND CURES is an intoxicating and unforgettable debut.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316195812
ISBN-10: 0316195812
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316195812
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
Notă biografică
Regina
O'Melveny's
poetry
has
been
published
widely
in
literary
journals,
garnering
several
prizes.
She
grew
up
at
the
edge
of
pungent
chaparral
in
La
Mesa,
California,
and
chose
to
enroll
at
Callison
College--a
school
of
International
Studies
at
the
University
of
the
Pacific--almost
solely
based
upon
the
fact
that
the
second
year
would
be
spent
in
India.
Thus
began
her
many
extended
travels
that
would
later
inspireThe
Book
of
Madness
and
Cures,
her
first
novel.
She
lives
in
Rancho
Palos
Verdes,
California.
Recenzii
"Regina
O'Melveny's
debut
novel,The
Book
of
Madness
and
Cures,
is
a
marvelous,
inventive
story
of
a
singular
courageous
woman
on
a
quest
to
find
her
missing
father.
Set
in
the
Renaissance,
it
explores
the
wonders,
and
dangers,
of
Europe
and
Asia
Minor
and
recreates
a
world--exotic
and
familiar,
sensuous
and
beguiling--where
a
defiant
woman,
practicing
the
ancient
healing
arts,
is
believed
to
be
contrary
to
the
laws
of
God
and
Man."—Kathleen
Kent,
author
ofThe
Traitor's
Wifeand
The
Heretic's
Daughter
"....[A]n elegant portrait of a resolute woman who practices medicine in 16th-century Venice...The writing is superb, particularly when the author describes..exotic locales and ancient superstitions. The book will especially attract readers who enjoy female centered historical novels whose plots are not driven by romance."—Lucy Roehrig, Library Journal
"[Gabriella Mondini's] journey is conveyed with earthy and sensual brio [and] clearly well-researched evocations of time and place, and...poetical description....You will love this adventure."—Elle Magazine
"Poet O'Melveny's debut fiction is like a lyrical composite creature-part father/daughter epistolary novel, part aristocratic diary, part adventurer's travelogue, and part compendium of allegorical diseases...Readers will be delighted by O'Melveny's whimsical embellishments."—Publisher's Weekly
"[A] picaresque fiction debut...a provocative window into early medical pronouncements on everything from depression to claustrophobia..."—Jan Stuart, The Boston Globe
"O'Melveny's writing is smooth and evocative. Gabriella proves a likeable traveling companion, and her first-person narration keeps things moving along....Readers will find much to enjoy in this colorful, picaresque tale."—David Maine, Popmatters
"Gorgeously written, and filled with details about science and medicine, this is an unforgettable debut novel."—Tara Quinn, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Infused with the sensuous places and metaphorical natural world that recur in [O'Melveny's] poetry..."—Anne Gray Fischer, Ploughshares
"Intriguing.... Every new chapter brings a new adventure and a new piece of the puzzle."—Claire Rivero, The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Reminiscent ofThe Red Tent, Anita Diamant's book-club favorite..."—Susannah Meadows, The New York Times
"[A] darkly whimsical first novel..."—Kirkus Reviews
"....[A]n elegant portrait of a resolute woman who practices medicine in 16th-century Venice...The writing is superb, particularly when the author describes..exotic locales and ancient superstitions. The book will especially attract readers who enjoy female centered historical novels whose plots are not driven by romance."—Lucy Roehrig, Library Journal
"[Gabriella Mondini's] journey is conveyed with earthy and sensual brio [and] clearly well-researched evocations of time and place, and...poetical description....You will love this adventure."—Elle Magazine
"Poet O'Melveny's debut fiction is like a lyrical composite creature-part father/daughter epistolary novel, part aristocratic diary, part adventurer's travelogue, and part compendium of allegorical diseases...Readers will be delighted by O'Melveny's whimsical embellishments."—Publisher's Weekly
"[A] picaresque fiction debut...a provocative window into early medical pronouncements on everything from depression to claustrophobia..."—Jan Stuart, The Boston Globe
"O'Melveny's writing is smooth and evocative. Gabriella proves a likeable traveling companion, and her first-person narration keeps things moving along....Readers will find much to enjoy in this colorful, picaresque tale."—David Maine, Popmatters
"Gorgeously written, and filled with details about science and medicine, this is an unforgettable debut novel."—Tara Quinn, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Infused with the sensuous places and metaphorical natural world that recur in [O'Melveny's] poetry..."—Anne Gray Fischer, Ploughshares
"Intriguing.... Every new chapter brings a new adventure and a new piece of the puzzle."—Claire Rivero, The Washington Independent Review of Books
"Reminiscent ofThe Red Tent, Anita Diamant's book-club favorite..."—Susannah Meadows, The New York Times
"[A] darkly whimsical first novel..."—Kirkus Reviews