Human Traces
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0099458268
ISBN 13
9780099458265
Category
Fiction
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
618
Description
What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human 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.If The Girl at the Lion d’Or was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.From the Hardcover edition. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
