Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead

Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead

An International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee

A Toronto Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

Conspiracies, plots, and paranoia are sweeping through London in the last days of the eighteenth century, and James Tilly Matthews has been caught under false pretenses and locked up in the city's vast, crumbling asylum. As his wife, Margaret, tries desperately to free him, political forces conspire to keep him locked up. Margaret's chief adversary is John Haslam, the asylum's chief apothecary, a man torn between his conscience and the lure of scientific discovery: as James becomes more famous--and more unhinged--he becomes a valuable specimen for the young doctor and a pawn in a grand political conspiracy. Based on real characters and events, Bedlam is a brilliant evocation of a city teetering between darkness and light, and a moving study of every kind of madness.

Greg Hollingshead has won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction for The Roaring Girl and is the author of The Healer, which won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a Giller Prize finalist. He lives in Edmonton, where he is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, and he is also director of writing programs at the Banff Centre. Visit his Web site at www.greghollingshead.com.

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ISBN 13	9780312427429
ISBN 10	0312427425
Title	Bedlam
Author	Greg Hollingshead
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	St. Martins Press-3PL
Year published	2007-10-30
Number of pages	400
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