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These Good Hands by Bruneau, Carol is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is These Good Hands about?
Set in the early autumn of 1943, the These Good Hands interweaves the biography of French sculptor Camille Claudel and the story of the nurse who cares for her during the final days of her thirty-year incarceration in France's Montdevergues Asylum. Biographers have suggested that Claudel survived her long internment by writing letters, few of which left the asylum because of her strict sequestration; in Bruneau's novel, these letters are reimagined in a series, penned to her younger self, the sculptor, popularly known as Rodin's tragic mistress. They trace the trajectory of her career in Belle Époque Paris and her descent into the stigmatizing illness that destroyed it. The nurse's story is revealed in her journal, which describes her labours and the ethical dilemma she eventually confronts. Through her letters, Camille relives the limits of her perseverance, and through her journal, Nurse confronts the limits of hers; these limits include the faith these women have in...
Who reads These Good Hands?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bruneau, Carol
- Publisher
- Cormorant Books Inc
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781770864276
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Graphic Novel, Comics
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (22 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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