Human Traces (Vintage International)

Chronicles the lives of Jacques Rebir̈e and Thomas Midwinter, two men from different countries and backgrounds but united by a quest to understand the workings of the human mind and to investigate the treatment of insanity, from 1876 when they are both sixteen through turn-of-the-century Europe and America, in a novel that looks at the origins of early psychiatry. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.