The madwomen of Paris a novel
"After being dragged into the Salpetriere asylum screaming, covered in blood, and suffering from amnesia, Josephine is diagnosed with what the nineteenth-century Parisian press has dubbed 'the epidemic of the age': hysteria. It's a disease so uniquely baffling that Jean-Martin Ch...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Ballantine Books
2024
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| Ausgabe: | Ballantine Books trade paperback edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "After being dragged into the Salpetriere asylum screaming, covered in blood, and suffering from amnesia, Josephine is diagnosed with what the nineteenth-century Parisian press has dubbed 'the epidemic of the age': hysteria. It's a disease so uniquely baffling that Jean-Martin Charcot, the Salpetriere's acclaimed director, devotes popular lectures to it, using hypnosis to elicit fits and fantastical symptoms in front of rapt audiences. Young, charismatic, and highly susceptible to this entrancement, Josephine quickly becomes a favorite of the powerful doctor and the Parisian public alike. But her true ally at the Salpetriere is Laure, a lonely ward attendant. As their friendship blossoms into something more, the two women find comfort and even joy together despite their bleak surroundings. Soon, Josephine's memory returns, and with it images of a gruesome crime she's convinced she's committed. Ensnared in Charcot's hypnotic web, she starts spiraling into seeming insanity, prompting a terrified Laure to plot their escape together. First, though, Laure must solve a grim mystery: Who, really, is the girl she's grown to love? Is Josephine a madwoman..."--Publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes a book club guide Inspired by true events |
| Beschreibung: | 330 pages 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780593158029 978-0-593-15802-9 0593158024 0-593-15802-4 |