STRANGE CASE SIMMONS & GLAS - Hardcover

Dannie-abse

 
9781861055040: STRANGE CASE SIMMONS & GLAS
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1861055048 ISBN 13: 9781861055040
Verlag: Robson Books Ltd, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

The story of Dr Robert Simmonds's disastrous infatuation with one of his patients, the young, unhappily married Yvonne Bloomberg, takes place during the post-war utilitarian days of the 1950s. When Yvonne presents her doctor with a Swedish novel about a certain Dr Glas, Robert Simmonds immediately recognises their similarity. 'I Dr. Simmonds' he writes in his diary 'acknowledge such an affinity with you. I understand your loneliness, your non-physical attachment to a woman, a woman who is innocent - and your belief in purity of action, however risky. I live here in 1950, you in a novel published in 1905. And yet you think my thoughts, speak words I could utter, accomplish deeds I might emulate.' The trouble is that the fictional Dr Glas deliberately murders the husband of the one he loved. In this spell-binding novel, Dannie Abse draws on his medical background to create a compelling narrative in which motives and action all come into question.

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One of Britain's most widely read and admired poets Dannie Abse has now retired from medical practice and currently broadcasts and reads his works widely in Europe and North America. Abse is the author of many books of poems, several works of fiction and an acclaimed autobiography, Goodbye Twentieth Century. He received an Hon. D. Litt. from the University of Wales in 1993.

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Verlag
Robson Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1861055048
ISBN 13 
9781861055040
Einband
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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