Description
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.Author: Greg Hollingshead
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 10/30/2007
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780312427429
ISBN10: 0312427425
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
About the Author
Greg Hollingshead is the author of The Roaring Girl, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and The Healer, which won the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. He is professor emeritus at the University of Alberta and director of writing programs at the Banff Centre.
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