When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives. E. J. Levy’s enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive/5(). “The Cape Doctor is a rare achievement: equal parts brains and heart, a page-turner and a deeply moving exploration of precisely what it means to be human. E. J. Levy breaks open what we think we know about gender, identity, and love and shines a light on the devastating limits of each. “E.J. Levy’s compelling novel The Cape Doctor, born at the intersection of history and imagination, powerfully examines the fluidity and complexity of gender. Levy offers a profound meditation on identity, loneliness, and love/5().
EJ Levy's debut novel, THE CAPE DOCTOR (Little Brown, ) is a NYT Editors' Choice; LOVE, IN THEORY won a Flannery O'Connor Award. Her anthology, TASTING LIFE TWICE, won a Lambda. Work in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, NYT THE PARIS REVIEW. "The Cape Doctor is a rare achievement: equal parts brains and heart, a page-turner and a deeply moving exploration of precisely what it means to be human. E. J. Levy breaks open what we think we know about gender, identity, and love and shines a light on the devastating limits of each. The Cape Doctor., a Novel About Trans, Feminist Icon James Barry. Teague Bohlen J AM. Author EJ Levy talks about her new book, The Cape Doctor at Tattered Cover, on Wednesday.
The Cape Doctor. by E. J. Levy. 1. Set amidst the dazzling coast and rugged mountains around Cape Town in the s and s, on the lush island of Mauritius, in glittering Georgian London, and in sodden Edinburgh (when it was an international intellectual hub, “the seat of Scottish genius”), the novel reflects the itinerant life of an army surgeon and colonial officers of the time. When he befriended the aristocratic Cape Governor, the doctor rose to the pinnacle of society, before the two were publicly accused of a homosexual affair that scandalized the colonies and nearly cost them their lives. E. J. Levy's enthralling novel, inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry, brings this captivating character vividly alive. The Cape Doctor by E.J. Levy The Cape Doctor is the story of a doctor who was born Mary, became Jonathan, and lived a life full of pleasure and disappointment, and along the way found a cure for syphilis, saved thousands of lives, and received the highest rank a military surgeon could obtain in the mid-nineteenth century. Jonathan is based on the real life of Doctor James Barry.
0コメント