Servants of the map
Subtitle: stories
By: by Andrea Barrett.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780393043488
Description: "Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion.

Throughout, Andrea Barrett's most characteristic theme - the happenings in that borderland between science and desire - unfolds in the diverse lives of unforgettable human beings."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Servants of the map; title: The forest; title: Theories of rain; title: Two rivers; title: The mysteries of ubiquitin; title: The cure.