Fig Eater A Novel

"Through overlapping perspectives, Ms. Shields flashes dazzling stereopticon slides of a city floating between opposites: the fading 19th century and the bustling 20th, the analytical male point of view and the intuitive female, the scientific and the superstitious. Ms. Shields has a powerful gift for poetic and painterly imagery. Her startling scenes, rich in metaphor, linger long in memory. But this often beautifully written book floats also between mystery and gothic and in the end opts for the second, which will not please those who expect a book to begin and end in the same genre."Shields, Jody is the author of 'Fig Eater A Novel' with ISBN 9780316785266 and ISBN 0316785261.