Book description
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,”…
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From the first pages of Joyce Carol Oates’ latest release, Butcher, on through to the surprising yet inevitable climax and conclusion, I was gobsmacked. This is a raw, driving, and brutal historical novel about one physician’s extreme and misguided hubris and the devastation it can wreak. Here is a taste of its miserable medicine: “It is unmistakable that the female body is, in certain respects, repulsive to examine too closely, a curse of the flesh which the wisest females accept as a debt inherited from Eve.” I was transfixed on its every page. And that JCO should deliver her novel…
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