{"product_id":"bedlam-a-novel-of-love-and-madness-9780312427429","title":"Bedlam: A Novel of Love and Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Toronto \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConspiracies, plots, and paranoia are sweeping through London in the last days of the eighteenth century, and James Tilly Matthews has been caught under false pretenses and locked up in the city's vast, crumbling asylum. As his wife, Margaret, tries desperately to free him, political forces conspire to keep him locked up. Margaret's chief adversary is John Haslam, the asylum's chief apothecary, a man torn between his conscience and the lure of scientific discovery: as James becomes more famous--and more unhinged--he becomes a valuable specimen for the young doctor and a pawn in a grand political conspiracy. Based on real characters and events, \u003ci\u003eBedlam\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant evocation of a city teetering between darkness and light, and a moving study of every kind of madness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312427429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/16\/2007 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Greg Hollingshead","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42478330904757,"sku":"9780312427429","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_401863e3-eb27-440f-baa1-bcd9fa97573f.jpg?v=1666751114","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bedlam-a-novel-of-love-and-madness-9780312427429","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}