num_pages: 256
description: "A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful."-- The New York Times Book ReviewThe miraculous, transformative stories of Joanna Scott's 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.
language: English
title: Various Antidotes: A Collection of Short Fiction
titlecomplete: Various Antidotes: A Collection of Short Fiction
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Literature
ratings_count: 72
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Picador