Brian O'Doherty, Author Turtle Point Press $25 (416p) ISBN 978-1-885983-39-8
What was the cause of the destruction of an Irish mountain village? In the fictive memoir that makes up the bulk of this book, the village's priest recounts the macabre events that began with the swift deaths of six women in the winter of 1939, and...
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Brian O'Doherty, Author Pantheon Books $19 (228p) ISBN 978-0-679-41208-3
Five monologues constitute this slight first novel, which begins promisingly but grows fussy and pedantic as it traces the methods of 18th-century physician Franz Anton Mesmer, father of hypnosis. In three of the novel's sections, Mesmer ruminates...
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Brian O'Doherty, Author Penguin Books $10 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-017926-2
Five monologues constitute this pedantic first novel, which traces the methods of 18th-century physician Franz Anton Mesmer, father of hypnosis. (July)
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