Human Traces
by Sebastian Faulks
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0091794552
- ISBN 13
- 9780091794552
- Seller
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Peebles, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
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About This Item
What is it to be human? This question, as inBirdsong, is at the heart ofHuman Traces. The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria. IfThe Girl at the Lion d'Orwas a simple three-movement symphony,Birdsongan opera,Charlotte Graya complex four-movement symphony andOn Green Dolphin Streeta concerto, thenHuman Tracesis a Wagnerian grand opera. From the Hardcover edition.
Synopsis
Sebastian Faulks's bestselling new novel. As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind.As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia.Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thistle and Heather Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 981
- Title
- Human Traces
- Author
- Sebastian Faulks
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091794552
- ISBN 13
- 9780091794552
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- September 26, 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; Fiction Historical;
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