Asylum - Shope, Nina
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Winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction A work of brilliant and innovative historical fiction, Asylum delves into the disturbing and seductive relationship between a young hysteric named Augustine and renowned nineteenth-century French neurologist J.M. Charcot. As Charcot risks his career to investigate the controversial disease of hysteria, Augustine struggles to make him acknowledge their interdependence and shared desires-until a new lover, M., drives them all to the brink of fracture. Drawing upon the medical photography, hypnotic states, and "grand demonstrations" that accompanied Charcot's…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Winner of the Dzanc Prize for Fiction A work of brilliant and innovative historical fiction, Asylum delves into the disturbing and seductive relationship between a young hysteric named Augustine and renowned nineteenth-century French neurologist J.M. Charcot. As Charcot risks his career to investigate the controversial disease of hysteria, Augustine struggles to make him acknowledge their interdependence and shared desires-until a new lover, M., drives them all to the brink of fracture. Drawing upon the medical photography, hypnotic states, and "grand demonstrations" that accompanied Charcot's research, Asylum traces the deterioration of the dynamic between doctor and patient as they transform from mutually entranced creators to jealous and spurned paramours, to fierce rivals, and finally to bitter enemies. Told in lyrical, feverish, and sometimes delirious prose, Nina Shope delivers a captivating narrative at the crossroads of Mary Shelley and Donna Tartt.
Autorenporträt
Nina Shope is the author of Hangings: Three Novellas (Starcherone Books). Her fiction has appeared in Plinth, Salt Hill, Fourteen Hills, 3rd Bed, Open City, Clerestory: A Brown/RISD Journal of the Art, and on sidebrow.net. Her writing has been anthologized in PP/FF: An Anthology, Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century, New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She holds an B.A. from Brown University and a MFA from Syracuse University. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with her husband, author Christopher Narozny, and their corgi.