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Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Harvest Books
Publication date
March 1, 1994
Pages
317
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780156000680
ISBN-10
0156000687
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$10.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean
Amazon.com description: Product Description: With its tantalizing reminders of Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll, this is an up-todate nineteenth-century novel, informed by a thoroughly twentieth-century sensibility. Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880s, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a twenty-five-year-old woman who has been created by one of them from human remains. A story of true love and scientific daring, it whirls the reader from the private operating rooms of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. It contains many unsanctified weddings, but hardly any perversions, and, as the Spectator put it, "an unexpected final twist doesn't make the novel seem trivial but, on the contrary, gives the vivid melodrama a retrospective gravity. You become aware that this odd book has been a great deal more than entertaining only on finishing it. Then your strongest desire is to start reading it again."
Editions
Hardcover
from Harcourt (March 1, 1993)
9780151730766 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $21.95
About: The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean
About: The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean
Paperback
1 edition from Dalkey Archive Pr (January 1, 2002)
9781564783073 | details & prices | 317 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $14.95
About: "The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.
About: "The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Harvest Books (March 1, 1994); titled "Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer"
9780156000680 | details & prices | 317 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $10.95
About: The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean
About: The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean
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