Word: healers
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...Mark Frutkin?s new Canadian novel Fabrizio's Return (Knopf Canada; 312 pages) Rome?s Sherlock is Michele Archenti, an advocate sent to Cremona, Italy, a village in the Lombardy plains. He's there to investigate the nomination of Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest and healer who lived in the 17th century, 76 years earlier. From the villagers, who would love nothing more than to have a hometown saint, Archenti hears fantastical tales of Cambiati's miracles: he floated among the clouds, cured the sick, revived the dead, made cathedrals appear out of thin air. It has grown...
...first years as president, Bok took on the role of campus healer, following on his legacy as dean of the Law School, where he was very popular among the students...
...Brugger of the Salzburg tourism office, he would be "a pop star - somewhere between Prince, Michael Jackson and Robbie Williams." There's little new about such typecasting. But over the past decade, Mozart has increasingly been placed in a role that is perhaps the most controversial of all: as healer of mind and body. In this New Age interpretation, Mozart is the ultimate composer-therapist whose music can help treat ailments ranging from acne to Alzheimer's disease and even, it is claimed, make you and your kids smarter. Some of these claims are based on science. One neurosurgeon...
...will seek out Jesse Baltram, his real father, a legendary painter who numbered Edward's mother among his many mistresses. He does not know exactly how Jesse can help him, but he feels irresistibly drawn, by a magic he claims not to believe, toward "the longed-for father, the healer, the hero-priest, the benevolent all-powerful king." No sooner does Edward conceive this idea than he receives an invitation from Jesse's wife to visit Seegard, the artist's house near a deserted stretch of English seacoast. He arrives to find himself welcomed by the wife and two beautiful...
...year of Huckleberry Finn’s publication, Rawles’ book relates the life of Jim’s remarkably resilient wife, Sadie Watson, a slave who works as a healer and a cook, among other things, as she passes between owners in the antebellum South. It is framed, plausibly, if not very originally, as a story Sadie tells to her granddaughter Marianne Libre, while, in the grand tradition of Penelope, Scheherazade and, more recently, Winona Ryder’s Finn Dodd, they make a kind of memory quilt...