Various Antidotes A Collection of Short Fiction [Paperback]

A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful. --The New York Times Book Review

The miraculous, transformative stories of Joanna Scott'sVarious Antidotesrange across the world of history and science, alighting on figures both real and imaginary. The stories within are those of obsession and brilliance, of the ultimately human recognition that the world is larger than we believe it to be and that we, as figures within it, have through understanding the power to change that world. Whether through learning or madness or accident, the scientists and students withinVarious Antidotesexpose us to the glorious blossom of the natural world.

Scott writes with the crispest and most telling of sentences. Her grasp of the mysteries within us is profound. Newsday

What most amazes me about Joanna Scott's extraordinary narratives is the vastness of the world her imagination ranges through and the rich, Dickensian variety of voices and characters one encounters here...A brilliant and unique achievement. Robert Coover

Joanna Scott writes in the tradition of the great American storytellers - Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Welty - a tradition in which romance is informed by moral consciousness. Maureen Howard

Joanna Scott's imagination is purest magic. Guy Davenport

One of the most original and enchanting voices in modern fiction...These stories are filled with utterly unanticipatable delights. Robert Olen Butler

She is one of the finest writers of her generation: elegant, sublime, of the earthy earth. Paul West

A greatly gifted and highly original artist...Various Antidotes is purely and simply wonderful. --The New York Times Book Review

The miraculous, transformative stories of Various Antidotes range across the world of history and science, alighting on figures both real and imaginary. The stories wlc‰