STRANGE CASE OF MADEMOISELLE P - Hardcover

O'Doherty, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679412085 ISBN 13: 9780679412083

Publisher: Pantheon, 1992

Synopsis

Whe Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer takes on the case of Marie Therese Paradies, a young woman stricken inexplicably blind at the age of three, he becomes involved in a tale of good versus evil set in eighteenth-century Vienna. A first novel.

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Review:

"'So gripping that one reads it at a gallop, almost frantically waiting for more revelations and turns in the story. All in all a brilliant performance' - Edward Said 'Taking historical personalities like toys from a box and giving them new life is the most creative way of playing (in the best sense of the term). It gives another dimension to the theme of this book - the conflict between official medicine and "healers" - and shows that no medicine is effective unless it's based on a philosophy of nature' - Gregor von Rezzoli"

About the Author:

Brian O'Doherty lives in New York where he is available for interview. His Booker Prize 2000 shortlisted novel, The Deposition of Father McGreevy, is also published by Arcadia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679412085
• ISBN 13: 9780679412083
• Binding: Hardcover