The Resurrectionist - A Novel

At South Carolina Medical College, Dr Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career-working in the university's public relations department-takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves are unearthed on campus.

In the nineteenth century, Nemo ("no man"), a slave purchased for his unusual knife skills, becomes an unacknowledged member of the surgical faculty by day-and by night, a "resurrectionist", responsible for procuring bodies for medical study.

With exceptional storytelling, pacing and skill, Matthew Guinn relates a gothic tale of shocking crimes and exquisite revenge, a riveting and satisfying moral parable of the American South.

About the author

Matthew Guinn's first novel, The Resurrectionist, was a finalist for the Edgar Award. A native Atlantan, he now lives with his family in Jackson, Mississippi.

Summary

A young doctor wrestles with the legacy of a slave “resurrectionist” owned by his South Carolina medical school.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Guinn, Guinn Matthew
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2014
• EAN: 9780393348811
• ISBN: 978-0-393-34881-1
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 208 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 243 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Historical crime novels; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary