Swallow by Mary Cappello
Combining original research with a sympathetic and evocative sensibility, award-winning author Mary Cappello restores the narratives, lives and desires of the physician-artist Dr. Chevalier Jackson and his patients that haunt the uncanny collection of items which have been swallowed (both accidentally and deliberately) at the world famous Mutter Museum. Swallow journeys deep into the nature of human experience, both as a literary and psychological exploration which uncovers rather than gawks at sword swallowers and women who lunch on hardware.
Mary Cappello’s three previous works of literary nonfiction are Awkward, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; Called Back, a critical memoir on cancer that won a ForeWord Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award; and the memoir Night Bloom. A recipient of the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative and the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, she is a former Fulbright lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow) and currently a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781595583956 |
| ISBN 10 | 1595583955 |
| Title | Swallow |
| Author | Mary Cappello |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The New Press |
| Year published | 2011-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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