Title:
Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer / edited by Alasdair Gray.
ISBN:
9780063374683
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Mariner Books paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Physical Description:
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
General Note:
Originally published: 1992.
Film tie-in.
Awards Note:
Whitbread Novel Award; Guardian Fiction Prize
Contents:
1: -- Making Me -- 2: -- Making Godwin Baxter -- 3: -- Quarrel -- 4: -- A Fascinating Stranger -- 5: -- Making Bella Baxter -- 6: -- Baxter's Dream -- 7: -- By the Fountain -- 8: -- Engagement -- 9: -- At the Window -- 10: -- Without Bella -- 11: -- Eighteen Park Circus -- Wedderburn's Letter -- 12: -- Making a Maniac -- 13: -- Intermission -- Bella Baxter's Letter -- 14: -- Glasgow to Odessa: The Gamblers -- 15: -- Odessa to Alexandria: The Missionaries -- 16: -- Alexandria to Gibraltar: Astley's Bitter Wisdom -- 17: -- Gibraltar to Paris: Wedderburn's Last Flight -- 18: -- Paris to Glasgow: The Return -- 19: -- My Shortest Chapter -- 20: -- God Answers -- 21: -- An Interruption -- 22: -- Truth: My Longest Chapter -- 23: -- Blessington's Last Stand -- 24: -- Good-Bye -- Illustrations -- Portrait of the Author -- Mr. Godwin Baxter, from a portrait by Ajax MacGillicuddy R.S.A. -- Bella Baxter, from a photograph in The Daily Telegraph -- Duncan Wedderburn -- Facsimile of Bella Baxter's MS. -- Professor Jean Martin Charcot -- General Sir Aubrey de la Pole Blessington, Bart V.C., from the London Illustrated News -- Blaydon Hattersley from the profile on his wages tokens.
Summary:
"In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald's motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin's, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has her own passions to pursue. Passions that take her to aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria, and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. Exploring her station as a woman in the shadow of the patriarchy, Bella knows it is up to her to free herself--and to decide what meaning, if any, true love has in her life."-- Provided by publisher.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
on1401259632
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