Perlman's Ordeal: A Novel

Perlman's Ordeal: A Novel image
ISBN-10:

0312267657

ISBN-13:

9780312267650

Author(s): Hansen, Brooks
Edition: First Edition
Released: Oct 06, 2000
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
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Description:

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

One evening in London in 1906, Dr. August Perlman--classical music lover, hashish devotee, and a scrupulously scientific pioneer of "clinical suggestion" (or hypnotism)--is about to leave for the symphony when a hysterical teenage girl is brought into his office. It seems that another girl's personality is living inside her. Eventually, in a time just before the age of Freud, a charismatic imposter (Madame Barrett, a "spiritualist") and the pioneering doctor must fight a heated battle over this teenager's soul. This novel, as The New York Times Book Review so aptly put it, is "extravagantly, even bewilderingly inventive . . . [and] crammed with the stuff of dreams."

























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