# A Proper Knowledge - Hardcover

by **Michelle Latiolais** (Author)

"Every passionate reader lives for that first page of a book that alerts her, straightaway, she'll be sorry when the book ends. So it is with Michelle Latiolais' astonishing, sparklingly intelligent new novel...The work strives, with bold zest, to arrive at the marrow of things...Latiolais triumphs, folding the work's clinical ruminations into the story's delicious batter. Powerfully recommended."--_Antioch Review_

"The novel counts--in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose--the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption."--Ron Carlson, author of _Five Skies_

"A ravishing intelligence is at work in these pages."--Elizabeth Tallent, author of _Honey_, on _Even Now_

A gifted psychiatrist, haunted by the death of his young sister, seeks to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism in this beautifully written, insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain--and the heart.

**Michelle Latiolais** is associate professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her novel _Even Now_ won the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal for Fiction in 1991.

### Author Biography

Michelle Latiolais is Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine, co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine, and author of Even Now, which won the Gold Medal for Fiction, Commonwealth Club of California 1991.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 0.81 x 8.28 x 5.14 IN

**Publication Date:** May 01, 2008

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