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Book Description: Cornerstone, United Kingdom, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 233 x 154 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. "Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebire and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques's brother Olivier, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found. Thomas's sister Sonia becomes the pivotal figure in the volatile relationship between the two men, which threatens to explode with the arrival in their Austrian sanatorium of an enigmatic patient, Fraulein Katharina von A, whose illness epitomises all that divides them. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the novel rises to a climax in which the value of what it means to be alive seems to hang in the balance.This is Sebastian Faulks's most ambitious novel yet, with scenes of emotional power recalling his most celebrated work, yet set here on an even larger scale. Bookseller Inventory # AWC9780091794552

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Book Description: Random House, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from UK. Bookseller Inventory # FR-9780091794552

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Book Description: Hutchinson. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 0091794552 This is a hardcover book with dust jacket. !!!!This is a 1st Edition!!!!!. Bookseller Inventory # 243.C

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Book Description: Hutchinson, London, 2005. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, first printing. Perfect condition. Jacket protected by archival cover. Faulk's most ambitious novel yet. 615 pages that take the reader from 1876 to the First World War, as two young men, 16 at the stories outset, set themselves on a course to become psychiatrists, and explore what kind of beings men and women really are. By the author of Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, and On Green Dolphin Street. "Faulks is beyond doubt a master." Financial Times. "The best novelist of his generation." The Scotsman. Bookseller Inventory # 003665

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Book Description: Hutchinson, London, 2005. Softcover. Book Condition: New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance reading copy. Uncorrected Proof. Unread. Faulk's most ambitious novel yet. 615 pages that take the reader from 1876 to the First World War, as two young men, 16 at the stories outset, set themselves on a course to become psychiatrists, and explore what kind of beings men and women really are. By the author of Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, and On Green Dolphin Street. "Faulks is beyond doubt a master." Financial Times. "The best novelist of his generation." The Scotsman. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Bookseller Inventory # 003669

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Book Description: Hutchinson, 2005. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 624 pages. 9.17x6.06x2.52 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # zk0091794552

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