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020 _a9780747562283
060 _aPZ
100 1 _aGray, Alisdair
245 1 _aPoor things
260 _aBedford Square :
_bBloomsbury,
_c2002
300 _ax, 318p
520 _aWhat strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
650 _aFiction
_96184
650 _aLiterature
942 _n0
999 _c97052
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