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| Original Title: | Various Antidotes: Stories |
| ISBN: | 0805041761 (ISBN13: 9780805041767) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1995) |
Joanna Scott
Paperback | Pages: 322 pages Rating: 3.97 | 70 Users | 10 Reviews
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"A greatly gifted and highly original artist....Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."-The New York Times Book ReviewThe miraculous, transformative stories of Various Antidotes range across the world of history and science, alighting on figures both real and imaginary. The stories within are those of obsession and brilliance, of the ultimately human recognition that the world is larger than we believe it to be and that we, as figures within it, have through understanding the power to change that world. Whether through learning or madness or accident, the scientists and students within Various Antidotes expose us to the glorious blossom of the natural world.
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| Title | : | Various Antidotes |
| Author | : | Joanna Scott |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 322 pages |
| Published | : | February 15th 1996 by Picador (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Literature |
Rating Containing Books Various Antidotes
Ratings: 3.97 From 70 Users | 10 ReviewsCrit Containing Books Various Antidotes
I don't like it when reading feels like work. Some of these stories fascinated me ("Concerning mold...," "The Marvelous Sauce"), but many rubbed me the wrong way, and I think this was a result of the way they were narrated. The Dorothea Dix story, for example.from the backcover:Joanna Scott is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester. She has also taught in the creative writing programs at Princeton University and the University of Maryland. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship during the writing of Arrogance.Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Joanna^^ScottUsually I find some prosaic quote to extract from the book I'm reading, for your supposed pleasure but really to console myself with the beautiful words of others, but with Joanna Scott, I've found it hard. These short stories are so strange and self-contained that some one-off about hanging an elephant or bees stinging their faithful keeper to death or unleashing thousands of mice upon a town would just be ... odd. Oh, who am I kidding. The last line of the last story: "Everything alive waited
Usually I find some prosaic quote to extract from the book I'm reading, for your supposed pleasure but really to console myself with the beautiful words of others, but with Joanna Scott, I've found it hard. These short stories are so strange and self-contained that some one-off about hanging an elephant or bees stinging their faithful keeper to death or unleashing thousands of mice upon a town would just be ... odd. Oh, who am I kidding. The last line of the last story: "Everything alive waited
The primary interest in reading these stories was the expectation of science related short fiction. But that's not quite what I found. The science is a stretch in some of the eleven stories. A few the science was more prominent, but this is also old, historical science, typically 17th or 18th Century. Overall the stories were set up quickly, the writing was decent in that aspect. I just didn't care for most of the topics. Odd set of stories really. contents:Concerning mold upon the skin, etc.
I am much more a fan when Scott writes novels; when the characters are allowed to develop over a few hundred pages. The multiple stories about heartless people and animal abuse probably turned me off the most.
I don't usually like short stories, but this book worked for me because there was a common theme throughout the stories. If you like scientific and wierd, you should like this.
For literary science dorks with short attention spans.
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