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false <![CDATA[Human Traces]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165620492m/7482.jpg 7482 14 What is it to be human? This question, as in Birdsong, is at the heart of Human Traces. The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria. If The Girl at the Lion d’Or was a simple three-movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera. From the Hardcover edition. 1741675 2005 Human Traces total:270|5:43|4:87|3:86|2:35|1:19| 270 910 459 59 2 2 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 02:34:35 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 02:43:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 06:27:01 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 06:27:20 -0700 2009
Jacques Rebeire is from poor french stock and has an elder brother with mental issues. This explains his desire to unlock...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 05:11:34 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 05:49:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 06 07:13:50 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 07:20:43 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jan 24 01:09:55 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 01:18:46 -0800 2009
Howe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 04:47:04 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 07:35:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 06:00:30 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 07:14:46 -0800 2007 Faulks loves the pre-WW1- and WW1-era, always researches his topics well, and creates very believable characters.
All of his books could be shortened by about a third, though, and this is certainly no exception.

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charcot's hysteria.. most delightful! what would it have been like to sit in front of him and hear him deliver a lecture on the female neurosis?!?! to be informed of a scientific breakthrough! rather than...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jul 28 15:42:19 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 15:42:19 -0700 2009 here to find it in the catalogue.more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 13:35:29 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 13:40:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 11:40:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 03:52:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 23:17:44 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 10:49:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 15 20:19:23 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 20:47:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Feb 21 15:50:14 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 23 10:31:51 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 07 11:11:58 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 05:45:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jul 24 09:28:05 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 09:36:14 -0700 2008
This book just hits the ground running in a way that reminded me of T.C. Boyle, Michael Ondaatje and the...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 12:57:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 13:01:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 09:56:12 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 04:36:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:42:23 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:09:33 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7482