The Sensualist

Barbara Hodgson

Original title: The sensualist

first published 1998 Chronicle Books, 1998 hardcover 295 pages

Helen Martin is a scholar of antique anatomical illustration. She knows the human body inside and out. But she doesn't know her own body anymore, because Helen is, quite literally, losing her senses. Sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste; all are disappearing. And she has started hallucinating - for surely it is a hallucination - that her body is being replaced, piece by piece, with someone else's. Her husband, too, se...

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The Sensualist paperback · 2001 · Chronicle Books · 304 pages · 9780811832083
The sensualist edition · 1998 · Chronicle Books · 295 pages
The Sensualist hardcover · 1998 · Chronicle Books · 295 pages · 9781551921716

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