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Opera di cera / Kelley Swain.
- Title
- Opera di cera / Kelley Swain.
- Author
- Swain, Kelley
- Publication
- Scarborough : Valley Press, 2014.
- ©2014
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3619.W352 O64 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 83 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "Kelley Swain takes us to 18th-century Florence, where the Museum of Physics and Natural History is creating its most famous waxwork, the anatomical Venus: a life-sized female figure who comes apart to reveal a foetus in the womb. Yet behind the exquisite craftsmanship and beauty of the finished waxwork lies an extraordinary tale; a macabre romance which plunges the reader into a sensual underworld of gluttony and lust, perfection and power. The fates of model, modeller, Museum Director and the deformed porter Cintio are soon intertwined; but who is watching whom as the Venus nears completion?"--Publisher's Web-site.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Medical fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Poems.
- Fiction
- History
- Fiction.
- History.
- Medical fiction.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781908853363 (pbk.)
- 1908853360 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 862761417
- SCSB-10969459
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library