Snake Dreamer - Hardcover

Galloway, Priscilla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038532264X ISBN 13: 9780385322645

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 1998

Synopsis

Dusa Thrasman is 16 years old and in trouble. Snakes are haunting her dreams, leaving her afraid to sleep, exhausted and ill. Her doctor has tried everything, but the medications only make things worse. Then Dusa sees a television interview with two doctors, the Gordon sisters. Their specialty: curing snake dreamers. Dusa is both frightened and relieved to hear them discuss her illness as if it's a real medical condition, something with a cure! But to be treated she must go with the Gordons to their remote clinic on an isolated Greek island.

From the moment Dusa arrives in Greece peculiar things happen. At the clinic, the staff and other patients have run off. The only people left are a boy named Perse and his father, the Gordons' servants. Perse tries to warn Dusa about the Gordons, but his broken English is hard to understand. Can he really mean that they haven't aged in a hundred years? What are they trying to find out when they hypnotize Dusa? And who was their sister, the original snake dreamer, the one they want to make whole again?

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Combining the elements of fantasy and thriller, Galloway creates an intriguing expansion of a classical tale into contemporary times, a thought-provoking meeting of myth and modern science."
--School Library Journal

"The sinuous details of the Greek Gorgon myth realized and surviving into the present are alluring and ominous indeed."
--The Bulletin

About the Author

Priscilla Galloway is the author of Truly Grim Tales, an acclaimed short story collection, and of an adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon. She has also written three works set in ancient Greece, ten picture books for children, and one book of adult nonfiction. She has edited several anthologies, and her poetry and short stories have appeared in magazines and scholarly journals and have been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Priscilla Galloway has taught in high schools and universities and has been honored as Teacher of the Year by the Ontario Council of Teachers of English. Born in Montreal, she has lived, written, taught, and scuba dived from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from southern farming country to northern mines, from the Caribbean to New Zealand. Her home base is Toronto.
From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 038532264X
• ISBN 13: 9780385322645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240