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Midwives
(Paperback, 1998)
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Author: Chris Bohjalian
Sybil Danforth, an uncertified lay midwife in rural Vermont, gets into trouble when she performs an ...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679771468
ISBN-13: 9780679771463
Jul 1998
Publisher: Random House Inc
374 pages
Vintage Contemporaries Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Sybil Danforth, an uncertified lay midwife in rural Vermont, gets into trouble when she performs an emergency Caesarian on a minister's wife. Sybil's daughter, Connie, looks back to 1981 to tell the story of the murder trial.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage Contemporaries Series |
| Size | | Length: | 374 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Throughout the long summer before my mother's trial began, and then during those crisp days in the fall when her life was paraded publicly before the county--her character lynched, her wisdom impugned--I overheard much more than my parents realized, and I understood more than they would have liked."
Industry Reviews
"Connie's story is a coming-of-age tale, in which disturbing incidents awaken a child to the world's complexity and unpredictability....Mr. Bohjalian has done his homework on midwifery and the mechanics of childbirth. he has also landed on a hot topic for baby boomers--the whole question of when alternatives to traditional medicine are beneficial, and when they become dangerous."
New York Times Book Review - Suzanne Berne (05/04/1997)
"[A] novel which could only have been written by an American....'Midwives' moves beyond being simply a celebration of the joys of the candle-lit birth. And there are other satisfactions--an abundance of medical and legal detail, for those who love such information, and the gentle, rolling rhythms of Bohjalian's prose..."
Literary Review - Kate Hubbard (12/19/1997)
"Bohjalian blends some provocative moral, medical, and political issues into a classic coming-of-age story....Rich in moral ambiguity, informative to a fault on the methods and politics of childbirth, and perceptive regarding the whipsawing desires and loyalties of a perfectly normal teenage girl: a compelling, complex novel..."
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