The Heart Specialist is a feminist-toned historical narrative that’s refreshingly unsentimental.” — BUST Magazine “Rothman clearly admires this early feminist pioneer, who overcomes tremendous male prejudice to establish a distinguished career in her own right.”4/5(85). Set in Quebec near the beginning of the twentieth century, The Heart Specialist is the epic story of Agnes White, a lonely orphaned girl fascinated by the “wrong” things—microscopes, dissections, and anatomy instead of more ladylike interests. When Agnes is young, her father, a French-Canadian doctor living in Montreal, is charged with the murder of his handicapped sister.4/5(85). · The Heart Specialist by Claire Holden Rothman. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, ,
Claire Holden Rothman sensitively traces the peaks and valleys experienced by a woman breaking through the formidable gender barriers of early twentieth-century medicine. Her Dr. Agnes White is a fascinating character, an anomaly in her time, an authority on the human heart who knows so little of the workings of her own. The Heart Specialist: A Novel - Kindle edition by Rothman, Claire Holden. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Heart Specialist: A Novel. Genre. Fiction. edit data. Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal writer who taught literature at Marianopolis College for many years and headed the advanced fiction workshop at McGill University. She now makes her living translating and adapting scripts for television. She has also translated literary works, including the first novel written in.
The Heart Specialist - Kindle edition by Rothman, Claire Holden. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Heart Specialist. The Heart Specialist, her first novel, was longlisted for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize, is a Canadian bestseller, and was released in Italy, Germany, the UK and French Canada. Claire Holden Rothman lives in Montreal with actor Arthur Holden and their two sons. The Heart Specialist is a feminist-toned historical narrative that’s refreshingly unsentimental.” — BUST Magazine “Rothman clearly admires this early feminist pioneer, who overcomes tremendous male prejudice to establish a distinguished career in her own right.”.
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