Snake Dreamer

By Priscilla Galloway

Book Overview

Dusa Thrasman is 16 years old and in trouble. Snakes haunt her dreams, leaving her afraid to sleep, exhausted and ill. Her doctor has tried everything. Then Dusa sees a TV interview with two doctors,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038532264X
• ISBN13: 9780385322645
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.8" x 1.0" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

The Legend of Medusa Retold in A Brilliant Story

This book is a very intriguing and a exciting one at that. This story center around a girl named Dusa who is having nightmares centering on snakes. Upon watching a commercial about two women who been treating a condition called snakedreaming, she is suddenly whisked away to a island in Greece. But upon arriving at the island, strange things begin to happen. Just who are the Gordons and why do they need Dusa in order to restore their sister? Could they sister really be Medusa, and could this mysterious sister having anything to do with Dusa's dreams? Read this book to find out.

An excellent and chilling re-telling of the Medusa legend

If you have ever visited Greece or Italy, you know that, in spite of their modern veneers, the ancient past often still lies very close to the surface, if you have just a little bit of imagination (at one point Perse even warns: "here the old times not dead"). The old gods never truly disappeared, and you can still imagine Ulysses' ships on the horizon. Here Ms. Galloway has written a brilliant psychological thriller set in modern-day Greece on a remote island clinic run by two Greek doctors obsessed with dreams and snakes ... could these two women really be the immortal Gorgons? By the way, the idea of Medusa as a tragic heroine is completely consistent with the Greek mythology. A highly recommended companion to this book is Bernard Evslin's "Medusa", which has dazzling artwork and also tells of Medusa's life story. A highly interesting femininist slant also pervades this book, asking us to question whether Perseus and the other macho Greek heroes were really as "heroic" as they seem. You can decide for yourself whether Dusa is simply had a fantastic hallucination or whether she really did encounter powerful beings from another age.