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The Nature of Monsters: A Novel
by Clare Clark
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151012067
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012060
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt. New York. 2007. Brown boards with gold lettering to spine. Slight push to spine ends and small (0.25 in) dent on top of front/back of pristine brown boards. First edition (stated) with A...B first printing code. Unclipped ($25.00) fine jacket shows nominal shelf wear and is protected with removable mylar cover. Signed in blue ink by author on title page. The story takes place in early circa 1700's London. A pregnant young girl moves to the city & given a job to avoid the scandal her pregnancy would cause. As the story evolves the young girl comes to realize the nature of her master's obsession. It's not good..... 9.25 x 6.25. 382 pg.
Synopsis
1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark. 1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral rising above a rebuilt city. She arrives as an apothecary’s maid, a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child from scandal. But why is the apothecary so eager to welcome her when he already has a maid, a half-wit named Mary? Why is Eliza never allowed to look her veiled master in the face or go into the study where he pursues his experiments? It is only on her visits to the Huguenot bookseller who supplies her master’s scientific tomes that she realizes the nature of his obsession. And she knows she has to act to save not just the child but Mary and herself. With exquisite prose, dark humor, and a historian’s eye for detail, Clare Clark has created another transporting novel.
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91
- Title
- The Nature of Monsters
- Author
- Clare Clark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0151012067
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012060
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- May 7, 2007
- Pages
- 382
- Size
- octavo
- Keywords
- London, Apothecary, history
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