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      Perlman's Ordeal

      by Brooks Hansen
      Published
      Aug 1999
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      352
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      New York Times Notable Book of the Year

      One evening in London in 1906, Dr. August Perlman--classical music lover, hashish devotee, and a scrupulously scientific pioneer of "clinical suggestion" (or hypnotism)--is about to leave for the symphony when a hysterical teenage girl is brought into his office. It seems that another girl's personality is living inside her. Eventually, in a time just before the age of Freud, a charismatic imposter (Madame Barrett, a "spiritualist") and the pioneering doctor must fight a heated battle over this teenager's soul. This novel, as The New York Times Book Review so aptly put it, is "extravagantly, even bewilderingly inventive . . . [and] crammed with the stuff of dreams."

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      Oct 2000 Picador ISBN13 9780312267650 ISBN10 0312267657
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      First Edition Aug 1999 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374230784 ISBN10 0374230781
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      Jan 1999 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374964085 ISBN10 0374964084
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