This remarkable debut novel by an acclaimed "New York Times" writer is at once an odyssey through classic literature and a heartbreakingly real portrait of a marriage as it unravels.
From the "New York Times" perfume critic comes a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insiders view of an industry and its charismatic characters. Writing with wit and elegance, Burr juxtaposes the stories of two perfumes--one created for a luxury-goods house, the other made by a giant international corporation.
For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfume," but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true.
EMPEROR OF SCENT recounts the life of French scientist Luca Turin and his amazing sense of smell in his adventures to catalogue the varieties of and unlock the mysteries to fragrance.
Burr's 1993 cover story in the Atlantic Monthly, "Homosexuality and Biology", introduced many readers to the often astonishing research being conducted on the question of what--at the biological level--made a person either heterosexual or homosexual. With this book, Burr expands his investigation into a full-length examination of this highly ...
Chandler Burr's widely praised Atlantic Monthly cover story was the first to introduce readers to the astonishing research being conducted on the question of what -- at a biological level -- made a person either heterosexual or homosexual. Now Burr's A Separate Creation -- highly praised in hardcover by the scientific community as well as the ...
In 1993 American scientists claimed they had discovered a gay gene. Sexual orientation it seems, is not a choice, disease or faddish whim but a fundamental biological part of who we are. This book examines this claim, looking at the laboratories where researchers are using incredible new technologies to discover what makes us gay of straight. From ...
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