The Body Farm | Ideas for Group Discussions
Several contexts beyond the detective genre can be fruitful starting points for discussion of The Body Farm: literature and science, especially psychology; regionalism, especially writing about the rural South; and the use of religion in literature. As is always the case with Cornwell, she addresses mainstream issues as she tells her story: professional relationships between the sexes, difficult family relationships, if reasons exist for an optimistic world view. And this may be the best-suited of the Scarpetta novels for discussion of Cornwell's style. Readers could linger over...
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