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Alchymic Journals (Paperback)
$9.98 - Save $6.02 37% off - RRP $16.00 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Alchymic JournalsA fictional tour de force of rich historical recreation and spectacular prose by the author of Son of the Morning Star. Connell imagines the journals of different alchemists--a conscientious physician, a Christian historian, a revolutionary, a philosopher, and others. "One of our most interesting and intelligent American writers".--Joyce Carol Oates. Advertising in literary publications.
Full description- Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
- Published: 09 January 2006
- Format: Paperback 222 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781593760762 ISBN 10: 1593760760
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Full description for Alchymic Journals
Capturing the spirit of arcane writing, Evan S. Connell delivers spectacular and esoteric prose as he imagines the journals of seven alchemists. The first is Paracelsus, the famous sixteenth-century alchemist, who is followed by an array of distinct voices: physicians, historians, alchemists, and philosophers. Each employs a unique personality and point of view in a world of pre-scientific thought, of the western world about to step into modernity. Though this historical recreation is medieval in style, Connell succeeds in infusing his diarists with alchemic wisdom, ancient appeal, and felt humanness. A work of rigid art and astute mimicry, Connell's work is intelligent and remarkable, medieval yet applicable to modernity. "Alchymic Journals is, at its core, a study of humanity from the mind of one of America's greatest writers.
