Heredity by Jenny Davidson
Smart, blonde, and self-destructive, Elizabeth Mann thinks that leaving New York for a London travel-writing job will solve all her problems with her father, a well-known American infertility specialist. She couldn?t be more wrong: in a museum of medical curiosities at the Royal College of Surgeons, her daydreams over the skeleton of Jonathan Wild - a notorious eighteenth-century bounty-hunter - are interrupted by an encounter with Gideon Streetcar, an attractive gynaecologist with asthma and a low sperm count. Not only is Gideon married, he?s also a former student of Elizabeth?s father; yet Elizabeth fast assumes the humiliating, exhilarating role of Gideon?s secret mistress. As her obsession with Jonathan Wild grows, Elizabeth decides that with Gideon?s help, she will give birth to the bounty-hunter?s clone. An impressive debut, Heredity is a virtuoso tale about the world of fertility and genetic cloning.
?The book is laced with veins of fascinating minutiae about grave robbing by early anatomists, the mechanics of vitro fertilization, even the pathology of syphilis? New York Times Book Review ?Drawing its author comparisons to writers from AS. Byatt to Susanna Kaysen, Davidson?s dark debut, Heredity, is the stuff of biology, love, and self-destruction ? you know, like all the good books? Seattle Stranger ?A wild cocktail of perverse historical romance, criminal cloning, adulterous sex, and medical shenanigans - Georgette Heyer meets Daniel Defoe and the Marquis de Sade? Mich?le Roberts ?Heredity is a marvelously entertaining work of intellectual and biological obsession ? bawdy, audacious, and very funny? David Liss, author of The Coffee Trader and A Conspiracy of Paper
Jenny Davidson was born in London in 1971 and raised in the United States. She teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852428648 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852428643 |
| Title | Heredity |
| Author | Jenny Davidson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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