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Human Traces
by Faulks, Sebastian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Back jacket flap has edge wear to fold. Minor blemishing to covers. Tight, clean interior.
- ISBN 10
- 0375502262
- ISBN 13
- 9780375502262
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Random House (NY), 2006. 1st U.S. printing. 2005 Hutchinson edition, England.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Back jacket flap has edge wear to fold. Minor blemishing to covers. Tight, clean interior.. 1 First edition. Paper over boards. 563 p. Audience: General/trade. Historical novel that begins with a 16-year-old youth in rural France, 1876; and in England, another boy, 16, expects his career will be in medicine. They meet 4 years later. As their careers and lives evolve in the science of psychiatry, their travels include Austria, California's Sierra Madre, and Africa. Their friendship is at times volatile, and the sister of one impacts them both.
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
- Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.B3430004398
- Title
- Human Traces
- Author
- Faulks, Sebastian
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Back jacket flap has edge wear to fold. Minor blemishing to covers. Tight, clean interior.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st U.S. printing. 2005 Hutchinson edition, England.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375502262
- ISBN 13
- 9780375502262
- Publisher
- Random House (NY)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Historical novel|California's Sierra Madre|Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
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About Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
Hedgehog's Whimsey Books was born in a random moment when I decided to become a used books seller. Beginning in 2001, I apprenticed myself with a longtime pro in the next town, hoping to learn her secrets. She encouraged my free help but was wary of sharing all those secrets. Nonetheless, she turned me loose when she felt I would not embarrass her; she was impressed, finding I actually knew something about books and authors and styles. I am still learning, and I am having a good time with the random avalanches of books to be recycled into good homes, one by one. Inventory has mounted: my mother downsized her 7,000-plus library, and we (my Geezer and I) went to library book sales, yard emporiums on weekends, estate dispersals, and added the books my kids left behind, wanting to stock their own shelves anew. Some folks simply tooled down our dirt road and left boxes on our porch. Myself? Well, I am also a photographer, journalist, curious stuff collector, avid reader, writer, editor, small-time publisher, and online pontificator. At Hedgehog Enterprises, I do "Words & Pictures by & for Folks with Prickly Backs, Soft Bellies, & Small Brains", established in 1991. Since I have the smallest brain (by unpopular vote), I am the Head Hedgehog. Do I specialize in particular genres? I thought I did, but my barn has lots of Geezer-built shelves, and we have many interests, so topics vary, as do book conditions and editions. I try to describe such, and sometimes have too much fun as I poke along. There is no charge for the therapy of browsing, folks, so find my sites and stay awhile. If a purchase results, know that the tax collector in Newport, New Hampshire, may get a pleasant surprise. Or, I may buy a few more apple cider donuts or sweet potatoes. No pressure. Hedgehogs do have yearnings. If you should visit by chance or by appointment, enjoy our old New Hampshire farmhouse location alongside the Sugar River and its companion recreation Rail Trail, nearby two historic railroad covered bridges just off Chandlers Mill Road. Feel welcome. -- Lucy G Wells, proprietor.
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