Paris Requiem - Couverture souple

Appignanesi, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908129999 ISBN 13 : 9781908129994

Editeur : Arcadia Books, 2013

Synopsis

'Intense, gripping and a sometimes disturbing tangled tale of murderous desire' - fromsilverdalewithlove

Paris 1899. The city is a glittering hub of fin-desiecle activity. Theatres and galleries are vibrant with artistic energy. The new metro is under construction, and so is the site for the centennial Universal Exhibition. But there is also violent political upheaval. The Dreyfus Affair has released a riotous surge of anti-semitism. Asylums and jails are overcrowded. Death and madness hover like a cloud over the city. Bostanian lawyer James Norton has been sent by his mother to bring back his Invalid sister Ellie and his younger brother Raf, a Journalist. But the violent deaths of the actress Olympe Fabre and then of her sister judith in the asylum of Salpetriere, draw the siblings into a dark web of violence. Olympe is pregnant. Is her death a crime passionnel or part of a conspiracy of serial killings of Jewish women, disturbingly linked to medical research at Salpetriere? A gripping psychological period thriller.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Appignanesi OBE is a prize-winning writer, novelist, broadcaster and cultural commentator. A Visiting Professor at King s College London, she is former President of the campaigning writers association, English PEN and is Chair of London s Freud Museum. 

Born in Poland, Lisa Appignanesi grew up in Paris and then in the province of Quebec first in a small Laurentian town, subsequently in Montreal. She attended McGill University, where she wrote for and was Features Editor of the McGill Daily; spent a summer working for the Canadian Press, another doubling as a waitress and student at the Sorbonne. A Bachelor's degree in Honours English was followed by a Masters which included a thesis on Edgar Allen Poe. During that last year at McGill, she also taught at Loyola College.

Restless with genre and branding, Appignanesi's fiction has moved across them  romance, saga, thrillers, the historical novel, a comedy in letters, a novel of return  while her non-fiction moved from history to cultural commentary and analysis, to family memoir. She has also made several television films, including a film for French television on Salman Rushdie. She has presented and scripted various radio programmes and series, such as 'The Case of Sigmund Freud', 'Freudian Slips', and 'Archive on Four: Freud v Jung', for BBC Radio 4, as well as presenting Night Waves for Radio 3 and appearing on Radio 4 s Saturday Review. She has frequently appeared as a cultural commentator on radio and television and written reviews and features for various newspapers, including The Independent, The Guardian, The Observerand The Telegraph.

She has given guest lectures across Britain, taught writing workshops and served on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors, on the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. In researching The Memory Man, she became a Fellow of the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory at the Open University and shadowed Professor Steven Rose's group which works on memory, a subject which long fascinated her and is also at the centre of her family memoir, Losing the Dead which came out in a new edition in 2013. As Deputy President of English PEN, and then its President, (2002-2011) she led the 'Free Expression is no Offence' campaign against the Incitement to Religious Hatred legislation and campaigned for an end to the Blasphemy Laws and reform to the visa system and libel laws.  She also helped to establish the PEN PINTER PRIZE for writers of courage in Britain and abroad; and worked to site Antony Gormley s commemorative WITNESS chair in the British Library Plaza.

Her award-winning Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present appeared to great critical acclaim, and was followed by the provocative All About Love:  Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion. Her new book Trials of Passion: In the Name of Love and Madness again delves into the history of psychiatry, investigating the rise of the expert psychiatric witness through remarkable trials of passion. For her The Brain and the Mind series at King s College London where she is a Visiting Professor, she received a Wellcome Trust People Award. 

Her OBE is for services to literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908129999
• ISBN 13: 9781908129994
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 445
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible