The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Subtitle: A Novel
By: by Katherine Howe.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Epub
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781401394431
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Fiction; Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction; Marblehead (Mass.) -- Fiction; Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history–the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest–to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance’s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem’s dark past then she could have ever imagined. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman’s story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.
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Table of contents: title: Epigraph; title: Part I; title: The Key and Bible; title: Prologue; title: Peter Petford slipped a long wooden spoon into the simmering…; title: Chapter One; title: “IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE ARE NEARLY OUT OF TIME,”…; title: Chapter Two; title: SINCE ARRIVING AT HARVARD, THREE YEARS AGO, CONNIE HAD SHARED…; title: Chapter Three; title: “I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE SHE DID IT,” SPAT CONNIE. SHE…; title: Chapter Four; title: “THERE IS THE DISTINCT POSSIBILITY THAT IT COULD BE A…; title: Chapter Five; title: “Explain this to me again,” said Sam, sliding a heavy…; title: Chapter Six; title: CONNIE STOOD, ARMS FOLDED, BEFORE THE IMPOSING GREEK REVIVAL edifice…; title: Chapter Seven; title: THE SHOULDER BAG SLIPPED TO THE FLOOR WITH A DULL…; title: Chapter Eight; title: CONNIE STOOD IN THE CRAMPED LADIES’ ROOM ON THE FIRST…; title: Chapter Nine; title: “SO WHERE’D YA WANNIT?” ASKED THE MAN, PLOPPING HIS TOOL…; title: Chapter Ten; title: “HEY, CORNELL!” A VOICE SAID, AND THE WORDS FLOATED IN…; title: Chapter Eleven; title: THE UPSTAIRS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM OF THE BOSTON Athenaeum…; title: Chapter Twelve; title: “FRANKLY, I AM A LITTLE SURPRISED THAT HE WOULD CALL…; title: Chapter Thirteen; title: CONNIE TOOK A LONG SWALLOW OF HER COCKTAIL, AND WHEN…; title: Chapter Fourteen; title: DESPITE HER BEST EFFORTS TO FEEL AT EASE IN GRANNA’S…; title: Part II; title: The Sieve and Scissors; title: Chapter Fifteen; title: THE CARDS SPREAD ON THE DINING TABLE LOOKED LIKE A…; title: Chapter Sixteen; title: The wooden bench in the vestibule outside of Manning Chilton’s…; title: Chapter Seventeen; title: A CHIME SOUNDED, AND THE GREAT MASS OF HUMANITY IN…; title: Chapter Eighteen; title: THE BACKS OF CONNIE’S EYELIDS GLOWED RED, AND SHE BECAME…; title: Chapter Nineteen; title: NIGHT CAME UNDER THE TIGHT CANOPY OF VINES OVER GRANNA’S…; title: Chapter Twenty; title: THE GUARD BARELY LOOKED UP AS CONNIE FLASHED HER LAMINATED…; title: Chapter Twenty-One; title: THE SURFACE OF THE DINING TABLE WAS SPREAD OUT WITH…; title: Chapter Twenty-Two; title: CONNIE EASED THE HANDLE OF THE HOSPITAL ROOM DOOR DOWNWARD,…; title: Chapter Twenty-Three; title: THE LONG DINING TABLE STOOD CLEARED OF ITS USUAL FLOTSAM,…; title: Postlude; title: Postscript; title: Acknowledgments; title: Copyright