The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

A Novel

electronic resource, 384 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2009 by Hyperion.

ISBN:
978-1-4013-9443-1
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OCLC Number:
474963439

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A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history–the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest–to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance’s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the …

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Subjects

  • Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Fiction
  • Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
  • Marblehead (Mass.) -- Fiction
  • Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction