Experimental Animals: (A Reality Fiction)

By Thalia Field

Book Overview

Fiction. "Stemming from a through-line of marital discord in the household of the great French vivisector, Claude Bernard, Thalia Field has discovered a number of voices, some famous, some forgotten, and allowed them all a moment in which to be heard again. This compelling tale is made up largely of excerpts and quotations, pieced together with great artistry. A beautiful and thought-provoking collage of a tale of rescued history and a sobering tribute to some of its victims." -Karen Joy Fowler "Advancing what she started twenty years ago with her earliest explorations of essayistic fiction, Thalia Field has now composed what very well might be her life's work-a tragic, comical, and utterly fascinating tale of a marriage that vividly encapsulates not only the origins of experimental medicine, but an entire age that spirited experiments in literature, science, engineering, film, etc. It's nothing less than a history-gorgeously fictional, purposefully essayistic-of how we got where we are." -John D'Agata

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986235539
• ISBN13: 9780986235535
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Solid Objects
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"