At the center of The Deadly Space Between is an adolescent boy, Toby Hawk, whose intimate relationship with his mother and her mysterious lover leads to a chilling outcome. A solitary boy in a family of independent, unconventional women, Toby lives in a small, closed world that consists of school and surfing the Internet. His mother, only fifteen years his senior, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. But everything changes when she takes up with Roehm, a fascinating but enigmatic scientist. As he begins his slow dance of courtship and seduction, alienating mother from son, their lives become unstable and duplicitous. But who is Roehm really -- this huge, sinister, irresistible man with no discernible past? The confused adolescent turns to the Web for clues about his mother's hauntingly seductive, predatory lover -- and the answers he finds transform his life.
An eerie psychological ghost story with echoes of Faust, Freud, and Frankenstein, The Deadly Space Between is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passions -- a rich and dark exploration of sexual ambiguity and longing.

The Deadly Space Between: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

DUNCKER, Patricia

Literary

Ecco

A solitary boy in a family of independent, unconventional women, Toby Hawk lives in a small, closed world that consists of school and surfing the Internet. His mother, Isobel, a painter on the brink of commercial success, is only fifteen years his senior and the two share an unusually intimate bond. But everything changes when Isobel takes up with Roehm, a fascinating and enigmatic scientist. As he begins his slow dance of courtship and seduction, alienating mother from son, their world becomes unstable and duplicitous. Toby turns to the Web for clues about his mother’s hauntingly irresistible, predatory lover -- and the answers he finds transform his life. 
An eerie psychological ghost story with echoes of Faust, Freud, and Frankenstein, The Deadly Space Between is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passions -- a rich and dark exploration of sexual ambiguity and longing.

Contemporary

Harper-perennial

So begins The Doctor, a provocative, illuminating novel based on a true story about a brilliant female physician who is compelled to live as a man under the name James Miranda Barry. Patricia Duncker traces Barry's incredible life over the course of five decades and across three continents, from his cross-dressing child genius days to medical school in Edinburgh, Scotland; from his glorious career as a military surgeon to his adventures as a celebrated duelist and social figure known throughout the world. 
This richly inventive and entertaining tale of dark family secrets, adultery, and colonial history is a transforming contemplation on the substance of gender, the power of will, and an unforgettable portrait of a brilliant mind.

The Doctor: A Novel

United States

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Hallucinating Foucault

Picador

At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but also a legendary duellist and a celebrated social figure. But James Miranda Barry was also a woman. Her greatest achievement of all had been to `pass` for a man for more than fifty years.Patricia Duncker`s novel tells Barry`s story for the first time, in a richly inventive and entertaining tale of dark family secrets, adultery, questioned paternity and colonial history. It confirms her rare talent as a writer of profound ideas and immense storytelling power.`A miracle of a book that is richly atmospheric and gains the murky excitement of a Victorian thriller ` Sunday Times `A marvellous work... superbly imagined and flamboyantly written` Beryl Bainbridge

James Miranda Barry

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Net at night. But everything changes when his mother takes up with a fascinating but enigmatic scientist, Roehm. Patricia Duncker's gripping novel is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passion. It is also an eerie psychological ghost story in the European tradition, whose sources - Freud, Faust and Frankenstein - haunt the pages.

The Deadly Space Between

Obsessed with finding and liberating author Paul Michel, an asylum-incarcerated schizophrenic, the narrator, a devoted reader, begins a search that takes him from the archives of Cambridge University to the depths of his own mad mind. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Vintage

Since 1970 the women's movement has produced a rich and varied harvest of feminist fiction. New writers have produced work that is politically cogent as well as technically innovative. This book introduces the reader to these women and to the politics and polemic that inform their writing. The author considers the relationship between feminist fiction and women's writing, using recent developments in feminist literary criticism to direct her discussion. She explores the balance between the poetic and the polemical, and art versus propaganda. The role of autobiography in feminist fiction is stressed, together with original explorations of fables, myths and mythologies. Further chapters consider the importance of genre in feminist writing, and the new, powerful voices that have emerged from black women's writing and lesbian writing.

Sisters and Strangers: An Introduction to Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Blackwell Pub.

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The Deadly Space Between: A Novel

The Deadly Space Between: A Novel

The Doctor: A Novel

Hallucinating Foucault

James Miranda Barry

The Deadly Space Between

The Deadly Space Between

Hallucinating Foucault

Sisters and Strangers: An Introduction to Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Sisters and Strangers: An Introduction to Contemporary Feminist Fiction