The Heart Specialist
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品牌: Claire Holden Rothman
基本信息出版社:Soho Press (2012年6月5日)平装:336页正文语种:英语ISBN:1616950773条形码:9781616950774商品重量:367 gASIN:1616950773您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介Set in Quebec at the turn of the 19th to 20th century,The Heart Specialistis the epic story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the "wrong" things—microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests—who rises to the status of one of the world's most celebrated pioneering women doctors. Not only does she break through patriarchal academic barriers; she masters the science of the human heart, becoming a scholar of international fame, all in a place and time inimical to intelligent women.
When Agnes is small, her father, a French-Canadian doctor living in Montreal, is charged with the murder of his handicapped sister. Although he is eventually acquitted, his reputation is ruined, and he flees, abandoning Agnes and her pregnant mother. Less than a year later, her mother dies of consumption, leaving Agnes and her baby sister Laure on their own. Agnes's sparse memories of her father have an abiding impact on her, and she is determined to find him, as well as to follow in his footsteps as a doctor, even though medical schools in Canada are closed to women at the time. She eventually gets her degree and finds a niche for herself as the curator of the McGill University pathology museum. But even as her professional star rises, her life is solitary and her happiness remains incomplete because of her missing father. One of the only clues in her quest to find him is a strange, misshapen heart that teaches her an invaluable lesson about love. Agnes ultimately must recognize that though she's a world-reknowned expert on the human heart, she still doesn't understand the her own.
Inspired by the career of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first female physicians,The HeartSpecialist is a novel about the mysterious, painful journey into selfhood.
From the Hardcover edition.媒体推荐"Told with precision, grace, and passion,The Heart Specialistis a beautiful, moving, utterly captivating novel about a woman who becomes one of Montreal's first female doctors. The writing is striking, the emotion immediate, the medical detail fascinating and the story compelling from the first page to the last. Claire Holden Rothman deserves a wide audience for this astounding literary achievement."—Lawrence Hill, author ofSomeone Knows My Name
"I can pay a book no higher compliment than to say I didn't want it to end. WithThe Heart Specialist, I rationed my reading, permitting myself only a few chapters at a sitting so as to savour the writing and the story."—Montreal Gazette
"[A]bly researched and written, with never an ungraceful sentence."—TorontoGlobe and Mail
“Rothman has provided insight and perhaps gratitude in readers for those who paved the way.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer
“Quietly captivating, the tone ofThe Heart Specialistis reminiscent of English classics likeJane Eyre... a tale of persistence, of dreams realized and dashed—it delivers on soft cat feet, and leaves one feeling satisfied and contemplative.”—Missourian
“Brilliant first novel ... Rothman’s heartbreaking portrait of this trailblazer will long linger with the reader.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Based on the life of one of Canada's pioneering female physicians, Rothman's novel paints an arresting portrait of an indomitable yet vulnerable young woman."—Booklist
“An epic that effortlessly navigates both complex medical concepts and the most basic human emotions…The Heart Specialistis a feminist-toned historical narrative that’s refreshingly unsentimental.”—BUSTMagazine
“Rothman clearly admires this early feminist pioneer, who overcomes tremendous male prejudice to establish a distinguished career in her own right.”—Kirkus Reviews
From the Hardcover edition.
