Author:
Regina O'Melveny
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Sign up todayThe Book of Madness and Cures
A Novel
Narrator
Katherine Kellgren
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Length
10 hours 24 minutes
Language
English
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“If you need to get away, this is the book to do it. Across time and the sea: Venice,1590. Dottore Gabriella Mondini is a rare and wonderful creature: a pre-twentieth-century female doctor, under suspicion by learned men and of great relief to the female patients she is allowed to treat. Her right to heal under threat, she embarks upon a great journey, across Europe and beyond, to find her father--and so much more.”
— Jocelyn • Bookshop Santa Cruz
Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened. Her father has left clues -- beautiful, thoughtful, sometimes torrid, and often enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopedia, The Book of Diseases.
After ten years of missing his kindness, insight, and guidance, Gabriella decides to set off on a quest to find him -- a daunting journey that will take her through great university cities, centers of medicine, and remote villages across Europe. Despite setbacks, wary strangers, and the menaces of the road, the young doctor bravely follows the clues to her lost father, all while taking notes on maladies and treating the ill to supplement her own work.
Gorgeous and brilliantly written, and filled with details about science, medicine, food, and madness, The Book of Madness and Cures is an unforgettable debut.
Regina O'Melveny's poetry has been published widely in literary journals, garnering several prizes. She grew up at the edge of pungent chaparral in La Mesa, California, and chose to enroll at Callison College -- a school of International Studies at the University of the Pacific -- almost solely based upon the fact that the second year would be spent in India. Thus began her many extended travels that would later inspire The Book of Madness and Cures, her first novel. She lives in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Katherine Kellgren
ISBN:
9781611136180
Length:
10 hours 24 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hachette Audio
Publication date:
April 10, 2012
Edition:
Unabridged
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