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| Original Title: | Various Antidotes: Stories |
| ISBN: | 0805041761 (ISBN13: 9780805041767) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1995) |
Joanna Scott
Paperback | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 3.97 | 70 Users | 10 Reviews
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| Title | : | Various Antidotes |
| Author | : | Joanna Scott |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
| Published | : | February 15th 1996 by Picador (first published 1994) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Literature |
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"A greatly gifted and highly original artist....Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."-The New York Times Book ReviewThe miraculous, transformative stories of Various Antidotes range across the world of history and science, alighting on figures both real and imaginary. The stories within are those of obsession and brilliance, of the ultimately human recognition that the world is larger than we believe it to be and that we, as figures within it, have through understanding the power to change that world. Whether through learning or madness or accident, the scientists and students within Various Antidotes expose us to the glorious blossom of the natural world.Rating Regarding Books Various Antidotes
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from the backcover:Joanna Scott is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester. She has also taught in the creative writing programs at Princeton University and the University of Maryland. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship during the writing of Arrogance.Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Joanna^^ScottUsually I find some prosaic quote to extract from the book I'm reading, for your supposed pleasure but really to console myself with the beautiful words of others, but with Joanna Scott, I've found it hard. These short stories are so strange and self-contained that some one-off about hanging an elephant or bees stinging their faithful keeper to death or unleashing thousands of mice upon a town would just be ... odd. Oh, who am I kidding. The last line of the last story: "Everything alive waited
For literary science dorks with short attention spans.
I feel like 2 stars is low, but I couldn't justify the 3-star statement that 'I liked' this book. I didn't hate reading it, I didn't have to force myself through but I found very little enjoyment in it.My biggest gripe is that while the book is very well-written, is that it holds a premise that I at first thought was fascinating and full of potential, but ultimately it suffers from some kind of lack of ambition. There's a certain comfort level Scott never steps out of and I think it shows.Some
I don't usually like short stories, but this book worked for me because there was a common theme throughout the stories. If you like scientific and wierd, you should like this.
I put Joanna Scott in the same universe as Steven Millhauser - their default authorial voices are often encyclopedic and authoritative. They often use historical settings, or they set their stories in other, alternative presents.Dorothea Dix: Samaritan is the standout in this collection for me. The wheel in this story turns imperceptibly, and yet, by the end, you're in a very different place from where you started.I also enjoyed X Number of Possibilities.
Some of the stories are interesting and some are just weird. Also, the fix of factual science history and fiction for the creation of art was a strange mix that I had trouble getting used to.
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