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Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebiere is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father's wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men's…
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18 editions · 2 languages- Ebook · English · 2009Random House Group Limited · 9781409067733
- Paperback · English · 2008Human Traces (Vintage International)Vintage · 672 pages · 9780375704574
- Ebook · English · 2006Random House Publishing Group · 9781588365682
- Audiobook · English · 2005Audiobooks · 9781856869744
- Hardcover · English · 2005Retailer-exclusive titles · 9780091911799
- Paperback · English · 2005Vintage Books · 793 pages · 9780099458265
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