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Barrett, Andrea Ship Fever: Stories
W. W. Norton & Company November 17, 19 0-393-31600-9 / 9780393316001 Paperback Good
The quantifiable truths of science intersect with the less easily measured precincts of the heart in these eight seductively stylish tales. In the gra phic title novella, a self-doubting, idealistic Canadian doctor's faith in science is sorely tested in 1847 when he takes a hospital post at a quarant ine station flooded with diseased, dying Irish immigrants fleeing the potat o famine. The story, which deftly exposes English and Canadian prejudice ag ainst the Irish, turns on the doctor's emotions, oscillating between a quar antined Irish woman and a wealthy Canadian lady, his onetime childhood play mate. In "The English Pupil," Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who brough t order to the natural world with his system of nomenclature, battles the d isorder of his own aging mind as he suffers from paralysis and memory loss at age 70. In "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds," a precious letter drafted by Austrian monk Gregor Mendel, who discovered the laws of heredity, reverber ates throughout the narrator's marriage to her husband, an upstate New York geneticist. Barrett (The Forms of Water) uses science as a prism to illumi nate, in often unsettling ways, the effects of ambition, intuition and chan ce on private and professional lives.
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Barrett, Andrea The Middle Kingdom
Flamingo 2001 0-00-710288-7 / 9780007102884 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Andrea Barrett is best known for her novel The Voyage of The Narwhal and a collection of short stories, Ship Fever. In both these books scientific dis covery, history and the natural world are wonderful backdrops to intimate, personal dramas. The Middle Kingdom is an earlier work but the same keen se nse of curiosity about life and the way to live it glimmers on the page. The novel opens in the recent past, in Tiananmen Square. There is smoke, gu nfire and confusion, a sense of history being destroyed and re-made into so mething else. In the midst of this historical shattering, is a character st udy of an American woman teaching natural history in a Chinese laboratory. Grace Hoffmeier's story starts off "stunted and stilted, common and sad", b ut by the end of the novel she has found the "middle way--not too much look ing back. Not too much dreaming ahead". Grace's is an American tale, one of stifling family conflicts; and two bad marriages that look like escape routes, but are just another way of being trapped. Grace overeats to compensate for all her mistakes, to swaddle her desires, to stop herself thinking: "that was how I existed then: push, shut, close, seal, deny, forget". But on a trip to China, with her husband Walter, a meeting at a scientific conference forces her to reassesses her past and take control of her future. Andrea Barrett's prose is lyrical and sure, blending fact with fiction in an elegant meditation on personal freedom and political repression. Grace's story is shadowed by real events in China, giving her voyage of discovery an extraordinary vividness and
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Barrett, Andrea The Voyage of the Narwhal
Flamingo 6 Mar 2000 0-00-655141-6 / 9780006551416 Paperback Very Good
Things were different, then: when Erasmus Darwin Wells set off for the arct ic in May of 1855, he and his companions went off into the unknown. Then, t he world was not charted as it is today: vast white spaces of ice were stil l vast white spaces on maps. Andrea Barrett's remarkable fourth novel, The Voyage of the Narwhal, follow s Erasmus on his journey of discovery--a journey that takes place both with in and without him. This is a tale of adventure, but of a very uncommon kin d. Barrett, a scientist who has turned her acute mind to the more fluid dem ands of fiction, has created in Erasmus an uncertain traveller. He is alrea dy 40 and afraid he has wasted his life: the men he sails alongside, includ ing the expedition's dashing and reckless commander, Zeke Voorhees, are his juniors. Perhaps Wells has been moved to venture north to shadow the impul sive Zeke, a childhood companion who takes with him the heedless love of Er asmus's sister, Lavinia. Danger, romance, distance, loss: in some ways, And rea Barrett's novel is old fashioned, an epithet she would probably relish. Yet in setting her book 150 years ago, Barrett has managed to shed a clear white light on present day dilemmas, such as the exploitation of the wilde rness and that of native peoples. She provides no easy answers, but the que stions she poses continue to fascinate long after the reader has closed her majestic book. --Erica Wagner --This text refers to an out of print or una vailable edition of this title. Review 'The clarity and depth of the story dazzle' The Times 'Enthralling, rivetingly authentic' Literary Review 'Crammed full of rich, pictorial description a
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